Updated: Dec 15, 2020, 09:02 PM IST
Based on intelligence, Air customs officials seized 1.26 kg of gold worth Rs 63.47 lakh from eight passengers who had arrived from Dubai in Chennai.
Seven passengers were intercepted at the exit on suspicion of smuggling gold. As many as 22 gold cut bits weighing 600 gram wrapped in the black adhesive tape were found ingeniously concealed in the hollow pipes of baggage trolleys belonging to Rahuman Hameed of Ramanathapuram and Mohamed Niyas of Chennai. Niyas was arrested as he had an earlier offence registered against him.
Five bundles of gold paste weighing 681 grams concealed in the rectum were recovered from Ragamath Ali, Jameel Ahamed, Mohamed Mussammil, Syed Mujahideen of Ramanathapuram and Mohamed Ibrahim of Chennai. On extraction, the paste yielded 522 grams of 24K purity gold.