Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Nov 20: Customs officials who found that a man was trying to smuggle 483.57 grams of gold worth Rs 18.47 lac into the country arrested him from the international airport here and seized the gold.
The man in question had arrived by an Air India Express flight from Dubai on Tuesday November 19.
They discovered that the man in question was caring the said gold in paste form filled in three packets stuffed into his anal cavity.
The officials have often been coming across passengers coming from Dubai bringing gold in various forms like powder or paste forms, many a time concealing them through ingenious ways.