Gold bar worth Rs 5.6 lakh recovered from passenger's rectum
Chandigarh: Customs officials at the Chandigarh International Airport on Thursday recovered a gold bar worth over Rs 5.6 lakh from the rectum of a passenger landing here from Dubai.
The passenger, who belongs to Ulhasnagar in Maharashtra, was smuggling the bullion concealed in his rectum.
The officials got suspicious of the passenger as he was walking awkwardly while trying to go through the green channel of the Customs here.
He had arrived by the Dubai-Chandigarh Indigo flight.
The gold bar was over 180 grams and worth nearly Rs 5.6 lakh, officials said.
The passenger was taken into custody and being questioned about the smuggling racket.
Customs officials had on Tuesday recovered gold worth Rs 25 lakh from two women passengers who had also hidden it in their rectum. They had also arrived from Dubai.
Officials have made several seizures of gold being smuggled into the country through the Dubai-Chandigarh sector flights in the past less than two years.
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Two Mangalore students selected for Republic Day Parade in Delhi
Mangalore: Two students from Mangalore have been selected to participate in the prestigious Republic Day Parade in Delhi. Cadet Lisha D.S., a third-year engineering student at St. Joseph's College of Engineering, Mangalore, and Cadet Sanath Krishna, a second-year engineering student, have been chosen for this honour.
On this occasion, the college's Principal Dr. Rio D'Souza, Director Rev. Fr. Willide Prakash D'Souza, Assistant Director Rev. Fr. Kenneth Rayner Crasta, and NCC in-charge Abhijit S. congratulated the cadets on their achievement.
