Mangalore: Customs officials at Mangalore International Airport seized Begonia brand of Iranian saffron weighing 12kgs from a passenger who arrived from Dubai on Thursday. The value of the contraband is approximately Rs12 lakh and was recovered from Abdul Rasheed Karimboonnummal Vadakkayil, a resident of Mattannur, Kannur district of Kerala. A departmental communique here stated that the saffron was concealed along with clothes and other personal belongings inside one carton box that Abdul Rasheed had in his possession.
22/08/13 Jaideep Shenoy/Times of India
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22/08/13 Jaideep Shenoy/Times of India
