CHENNAI: Air customs sleuths at Chennai airport seized 928 gram of gold, worth Rs 41.77 lakh, from a passenger who arrived here from Dubai on in the early hours of Thursday.
Following a suspicion that gold might be smuggled in, customs officials stopped Balaji Neelakandan, 31, who arrived here in an Emirates flight at 2.05am. A check revealed that he was carrying gold ingots concealed in his rectum.
The passenger was arrested.