Summary:
By Express News ServiceCHENNAI: Customs officials foiled bids to smuggle 2.6 kg gold worth Rs 97 lakh and cigarettes worth Rs 75,000 and arrested one person at the airport. Eight crude gold bangles weighing 390gm worth Rs 14 lakh were recovered. On personal search, all were found carrying gold in rubbery paste concealed in rectum. On extraction, one kg gold worth Rs 37.8 lakh was recovered. On extraction, a gold ingot weighing 369 gm worth Rs 13.5 lakh was recovered..