This story is from September 21, 2021
Gold worth Rs 27.8 lakh seized from passenger at Chennai airport
CHENNAI:
On personal search of the passenger, four bundles of gold in paste form were recovered from his rectum. On extraction, one gold ingot of 24K purity -- weighing 583 grams and worth Rs 27.8 lakh -- was recovered. It was seized under the
Customs
officials at Chennai international airport on Tuesday morning seized 583 gram of gold, worth Rs 27.8 lakh, from a passenger. The passenger was arrested.Dubai
in anEmirates
flight (EK-542) at 2.40am.On personal search of the passenger, four bundles of gold in paste form were recovered from his rectum. On extraction, one gold ingot of 24K purity -- weighing 583 grams and worth Rs 27.8 lakh -- was recovered. It was seized under the
Customs Act
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