Chennai Airport

About 810 gm of 24 karat gold worth over Rs 40 lakh has been seized from a man who carried it in his rectum from Dubai to Chennai.Customs officials have arrested the passenger and further probe in on.

Customs officials at Chennai airport found 107 live spiders in a postal parcel that arrived from Poland at the Foreign Post Office.

Over 15 kg of heroin worth Rs 100 crore was seized at the airport in Chennai on Friday and two Tanzanian nationals were arrested in this connection, said a top Customs official.

On February 5, Navy sailor Suraj Kumar Dubey from Jharkhand walked down a hill in Maharashtra's Palghar district in a semi-burnt condition. At the hospital, before his death, he told the local police that he had been kidnapped from outside the Chennai airport on January 30, kept confined in the Tamil Nadu capital for three days for ransom and set o...

A Navy sailor died on Saturday at a Mumbai hospital while being treated for burn injuries sustained after he was set on fire, allegedly after a failed kidnapping attempt

A bomb threat by a suspected woman caller to the airport here on Monday turned out to be a hoax, after security personnel launched a thorough search, officials said.

The Chennai Air Customs has seized 4.15 kg gold worth over Rs 2.17 crore at the Chennai airport and arrested seven people after busting a smuggling racket, in which the passengers were found to have swallowed capsules of gold paste wrapped with polythene/rubber cover.

Customs authorities at Chennai airport have made massive recoveries of gold in various forms over the past three days, with more than 9 kilograms of it found on nine persons who carried it in their rectums. The precious metal was also seized in the form of bits and chains from the same set of people.

Two passengers were arrested when goods including 1.42 kilograms of gold with a total worth Rs 85 lakhs were seized by the Customs department at the Chennai airport on Wednesday.

Customs officials at Chennai International Airport seized 3.72-kilogram gold valued at Rs 1.97 crore on Thursday from different passengers travelling from Dubai and Sharjah.

The custom officials seized 937 grams gold worth Rs 48.27 lakhs in Chennai Airport from two passengers on Saturday.

A software engineer working at the Chennai airport and a passenger who arrived from Dubai were arrested for allegedly smuggling gold bars worth Rs 1.5 crore, the CISF said.

In an ace example of how far smugglers would go to carry gold past airport security, two men were caught with bags of gold paste in their rectum on Thursday.

Chennai Air Customs officials have seized 3.15 kilogram of gold worth Rs 1.57 crores from Chennai International Airport and arrested three accused in connection with the recovery.

Under the Vande Bharat mission, an Air India flight from Bahrain to Chennai departed from Bahrain International Airport on Sunday, informed the Indian Embassy in Bahrain.

About 810 gm of 24 karat gold worth over Rs 40 lakh has been seized from a man who carried it in his rectum from Dubai to Chennai.Customs officials have arrested the passenger and further probe in on.

Customs officials at Chennai airport found 107 live spiders in a postal parcel that arrived from Poland at the Foreign Post Office.

Over 15 kg of heroin worth Rs 100 crore was seized at the airport in Chennai on Friday and two Tanzanian nationals were arrested in this connection, said a top Customs official.

On February 5, Navy sailor Suraj Kumar Dubey from Jharkhand walked down a hill in Maharashtra's Palghar district in a semi-burnt condition. At the hospital, before his death, he told the local police that he had been kidnapped from outside the Chennai airport on January 30, kept confined in the Tamil Nadu capital for three days for ransom and set o...

A Navy sailor died on Saturday at a Mumbai hospital while being treated for burn injuries sustained after he was set on fire, allegedly after a failed kidnapping attempt

A bomb threat by a suspected woman caller to the airport here on Monday turned out to be a hoax, after security personnel launched a thorough search, officials said.

The Chennai Air Customs has seized 4.15 kg gold worth over Rs 2.17 crore at the Chennai airport and arrested seven people after busting a smuggling racket, in which the passengers were found to have swallowed capsules of gold paste wrapped with polythene/rubber cover.

Customs authorities at Chennai airport have made massive recoveries of gold in various forms over the past three days, with more than 9 kilograms of it found on nine persons who carried it in their rectums. The precious metal was also seized in the form of bits and chains from the same set of people.

Two passengers were arrested when goods including 1.42 kilograms of gold with a total worth Rs 85 lakhs were seized by the Customs department at the Chennai airport on Wednesday.

Customs officials at Chennai International Airport seized 3.72-kilogram gold valued at Rs 1.97 crore on Thursday from different passengers travelling from Dubai and Sharjah.

The custom officials seized 937 grams gold worth Rs 48.27 lakhs in Chennai Airport from two passengers on Saturday.

A software engineer working at the Chennai airport and a passenger who arrived from Dubai were arrested for allegedly smuggling gold bars worth Rs 1.5 crore, the CISF said.

In an ace example of how far smugglers would go to carry gold past airport security, two men were caught with bags of gold paste in their rectum on Thursday.

Chennai Air Customs officials have seized 3.15 kilogram of gold worth Rs 1.57 crores from Chennai International Airport and arrested three accused in connection with the recovery.

Under the Vande Bharat mission, an Air India flight from Bahrain to Chennai departed from Bahrain International Airport on Sunday, informed the Indian Embassy in Bahrain.