The Jet Airways plane had landed in Kolkata and
was being cleaned before a scheduled flight to Patna when the
cleaners found two bags with the gold stashed inside, Customs
official Mona Priyadarshini said.
Priyadarshini said the gold bars weighed around 1 kilogram each.
Customs officials confiscated the stash and are investigating.
India is one of the world's biggest consumers of gold. The
government increased the gold import duty recently, which
officials say has encouraged smuggling.
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