Pune builder gives the slip to DRI
First of all, let me give the disclaimer. This is all hearsay; we have absolutely no confirmed report.
A top builder and contractor from Pune who was detained for evading Customs at the Mumbai airport on Sunday, was released on bail on Monday.
The Pax was returning from London with his family when DRI officials searched the builder's luggage at the Mumbai airport, and found expensive watches, jewellery, and other items which were not declared.
The DRI officers, who had been keeping a close watch on a tip-off from London, interrogated him and later handed him over to Mumbai Police for an overnight remand at a lock-up.
However, without the knowledge of the DRI, he applied for bail before the night magistrate, who set him free for Rs 50,000 and asked him to pay Rs 15 lakh as fine.
The DRI sleuths were informed of his release only when they went to the police station on Monday morning to take him to court.
Meanwhile DRI sleuths are reported to be searching Reliance at Jamnagar and are hoping to come up with a big case. DRI bosses were tight-lipped on the issue.