Customs authorities seized nearly four kilograms of smuggled-in gold compound in five separate cases at Calicut International Airport, Karipur, on Thursday. Officials said that the extracted gold could fetch ₹2.18 crore.
While three cases were body concealment, one case was pasting of gold compound to clothes and the other a case of concealment in a flight’s lifejacket cover.
In the first case, four gold compound capsules weighing 1,164 gm were recovered from the body of Naseerudheen Paryarath from Kodiyathur. He arrived from Jeddah on Air India Express flight IX 394.