Daijiworld Media Network – Kasargod
Kasargod, Jan 15: The custom officials have seized 523 grams of gold ornaments worth Rs 14 lac at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport and in connection have arrested K A Hamsa, a Nellikunje resident.
On Friday January 13 at 5.30 am when Hamsa landed at the Thiruvananthapuram airport after flying from Dubai in Air India the custom officials examined his body through a metal detector and found that he was hiding the gold ornaments inside his clothes.
In the month of December, 2011 the custom officers had seized gold worth Rs 33.3 lac in the same airport.