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Gold Worth Rs 2.83 Crore Seized At Chennai Airport

Over 6 kg of gold valued at Rs 2.83 crore was seized in multiple incidents at the airport here in the last one week, the Customs Department said 🦋on Saturday.൩

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Over 6 kg of gold valued at Rs 2.83 crore🐟 was seized i♊n multiple incidents at the airport here in the last one week, the Customs Department said on Saturday.

The gold bits and chains were confiscated from people who arrived from Sri Lanka, Singapore, aꦉnd Thailand, said a press release from the Customs.

A plasti💮c packet containing gold in paste form, concealed in a toilet in the international arrival terminal, was deteꦉcted on Thursday and a gold bar was found in a restroom on an aircraft from Dhaka after a search on Friday, the release said.

Further investigations are on, it added.

(Inputs from PTI)

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