Court Remands 11 Syndicate Operatives to 14-Day Judicial Custody Under Customs Act
Key Points
- Metropolitan Magistrate ordered 14-day judicial custody for 11 key syndicate members
- Enforcement prosecutors submitted digital evidence linking handlers in the UAE and Southeast Asia
- Financial probe underway into multi-crore hawala settlement networks
Editorial Deep Dive & Context
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in New Delhi remanded 11 arrested members of the gold smuggling network to 14-day judicial custody following their production by the DRI.
Special public prosecutors presented evidence demonstrating structured communication channels between local distributors and overseas handlers based in the UAE and Southeast Asia.
Investigators informed the bench that forensic digital analysis of seized mobile phones revealed extensive hawala transaction logs used to settle gold import invoices.
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