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Gold worth Rs 27.8 lakh seized from passenger at Chennai airport

CHENNAI:

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.

Based on intelligence, customs officials intercepted a 45-year-old-man who arrived from

Dubai

in an

Emirates

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

, 1962.

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