Gold worth Rs 2.9 crore seized from 5 passengers at airport | Coimbatore News
The officials had seized the gold on February 1, but revealed the details on Thursday. The arrested people were identified as Mustafa, Abdul Kuthus, Mohideen Abdul Kadar, Mohammed Ali Jinnah and Sheik Mohideen, natives of Sivaganga, Trichy, Ramanathapuram and Chennai districts. They had concealed gold in their rectum and one of them had swallowed 28 capsules that contained gold in paste form. The sleuths were on alert on February 1 after receiving a tip-off, DRI deputy director G Sathish said. “We monitored the passengers who arrived in an Air Arabia flight from Sharjah and intercepted five...
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