Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Feb 5: Customs officials working at the international airport here have succeeded in tracing and seizing gold worth Rs 15.90 lacs from the possession of a passenger who arrived here on Wednesday February 4 from Dubai.
The passenger concerned, identified as Muhammed Basheer from Pallatungal in Tekkil, Kasargod district, had arrived by a Jet Airways flight which touched down on Wednesday morning.
He had got the gold converted into thin sheets, and concealed the same inside the inner cover of two trolley suitcases.
The officials found out this mischief during the routine checking of luggages.
Customs assistant commissioner, Udayashankaran N, supervised this operation.