Customs officers seized 1.2 kg of gold price ₹59.70 lakh and electronics items price ₹4.86 lakh and 1,706 karat of valuable stones price ₹23.13 lakhs at Chennai airport.

Raheem Abdul Hameed, a resident of Triplicane and Mohamed Asif, a resident of Alandur, who arrived from Dubai on August 28 at 5.10 a.m., had been detained by the officers on suspicion, in line with a press launch.

The officers discovered that these passengers had hidden three bundles of gold in paste kind of their rectum; they’d hidden two gold bars, two gold bits and two gold chains as effectively. Of their baggage, assorted digital items price ₹4.86 lakh had been discovered, the discharge stated.

In yet another case the identical day, Thangaraja, who arrived from Colombo, was held for hiding six bundles of valuable stones in his rectum. Officers acquired 1,706 karat of valuable stones from him.