
Chennai: Gold worth Rs 1.54 crore seized from juicer, cooker, emergency light.
The Air Intelligence Unit of the Customs seized nearly 4kg of gold, valued at Rs 1.54 crore, in three separate incidents at the international airport in Chennai on Sunday and Monday. The gold was smuggled in an emergency light, rice cooker and electrical juicer, a press release from the Customs revealed.
On Sunday morning, Sharafudheen, a 23-year-old man who arrived via an IndiGo flight from Dubai, was stopped at the exit of the airport. When Customs personnel inspected his checked-in bag, a rice cooker was found. When dismantled, the the rice cooker was found to contain a ring-shaped gold ingot weighing 610gm, worth Rs 25.22 lakh, inside its heating plate. Sharafudheen, a native of Kozhikode, Kerala, was arrested.
On Sunday night, Abdul Jaleel, another native of Kozhikode, was intercepted at the exit of the Chennai Airport. Jaleel, who arrived from Abu Dhabi via Bahrain on a Gulf Air flight, was carrying an electrical juicer. When Customs officials dismantled the juicer, they found a rectangular gold sheet weighing 438gm and valued at Rs 18.11 lakh. The gold sheet was concealed inside the motor of the juicer. Abdul Jaleel is 29 years old.
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