Monday, July 15, 2019

Gold worth Rs 1.1 crore seized from passengers at Chennai airport

Chennai: Customs officials seized 3kg of gold worth Rs 1.1 crore from 11 passengers at Chennai international airport on Sunday and arrested two of them.
Customs officials intercepted Hameed Hufran Badusha, 23, Meera Hussain , 43, of Chennai, Mohamed Ibunu , 25, and Kalanther Seiyadhu Ali, 40, of Ramnathapuram, Bathusha, 24, of Mandapam, Mohamed Riyath, 25, of Kilakarai, Alla Pitchai, 24, of Vattanam, Syed Ismail, 32, of Madurai, Shahul Hameedu, 38, of SP Pattinam, Savukath Kamal ,49, and Sheik Abdulla, 34 , of Thondi who arrived here from Colombo in a SpiceJet flight.
All of them were found to have concealed gold in rubbery paste in their rectums. The officials also recovered gold cut bits from them.
On extraction, 3kg of gold of 24 K purity, worth at Rs. 1.1 crore, was recovered.
15/07/19 Siddharth Prabhakar/Times of India
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