Pune: The city airport’s customs unit caught a man from Sangli trying to smuggle more than 1kg of gold into the country from Dubai. The officers seized the precious metal in solid and semi-solid paste form, hidden within the aircraft in which the man travelled here.Customs officials said that the man’s intention was not to take the gold out at Pune airport. The same aircraft is used in the domestic circuit after landing here, and the plan was for the gold to be picked up elsewhere, they said.The SpiceJet flight SG-52 takes off from Dubai around 12.30am and reaches Pune around 4.30am….
