<p class="title">An African national has been arrested at the Mumbai airport for allegedly carrying 75 kgs of sandalwood worth approximately Rs 4.9 lakh, CISF officials said on Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Bakri Abbas Hussain Ahmed, a Sudanese national, was scheduled to fly to Addis Ababa by an Ethiopian Airways flight on Sunday, they said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">During the screening of his bag through the X-BIS machine near the departure gate number-3 of Terminal-2 of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International (CSMI) Airport, suspicious items were noticed, the officials said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On physical checking, 75 kgs of sandalwood wrapped in plastic sheet were found, they said, adding that Ahmed could not give any satisfactory answers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The passenger along with the recovered sandalwood was handed over to the Forest Department for further legal action, the officials added. </p>
<p class="title">An African national has been arrested at the Mumbai airport for allegedly carrying 75 kgs of sandalwood worth approximately Rs 4.9 lakh, CISF officials said on Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Bakri Abbas Hussain Ahmed, a Sudanese national, was scheduled to fly to Addis Ababa by an Ethiopian Airways flight on Sunday, they said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">During the screening of his bag through the X-BIS machine near the departure gate number-3 of Terminal-2 of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International (CSMI) Airport, suspicious items were noticed, the officials said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On physical checking, 75 kgs of sandalwood wrapped in plastic sheet were found, they said, adding that Ahmed could not give any satisfactory answers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The passenger along with the recovered sandalwood was handed over to the Forest Department for further legal action, the officials added. </p>