Kannur, Jul 23 (Agency) Customs Preventive Commissioner Sumith Kumar on Friday dismissed three Customs inspectors from the service on the charges of helping to smuggle gold weighing 4.5 kilograms through Kannur International Airport in 2019. The dismissal orders were issued to Rohit Sharma, Sakeendra Paswan and Krishn Kumar, the trio serving as Customs inspectors at Kannur Airport.
They were arrested by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials on August 29, 2019. The trio was associated with Rahul Pandit, a Customs officer at Karipur Airport, who was also arrested by DRI in 2019 and seized 11 kilograms of gold including 4.5-kilo gram from four passengers who left Kannur International Airport without passing through the X-ray scanner machines following the directions from Rahul Pandit.