Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu:
A 32-year old man from Kerala was today arrested at the airport in Coimbatore for allegedly attempting to smuggle one kg of gold from Sharjah.
Customs officials found Sujith Kumar of Kozhikode carrying the gold biscuits hidden in an iron box when they searched his baggage on his arrival from Sharjah by an Air Arabia flight, police said.
The iron box weighed around 3.5 kgs and on opening the officials found one kg of gold biscuits packed inside. The officials handed over the 32-year-old to the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence.
Officials had earlier put the quantity of the seized gold at 2.5 kg.
The value of the seizure was around Rs 32 lakh, police said adding inquiry revealed that the accused was carrying out such smuggling activities for the last one year, police said.
The officials at the airport had recently seized a total of 2.5 kgs of gold from two persons, also hailing from Kerala, on two separate days.