Customs officials confiscated 1,200 packets of foreign cigarettes with an estimated value of ₹2.04 lakh from a passenger who arrived at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport from Abu Dhabi on Thursday.
According to official sources, the cigarettes were concealed in two check-in baggage carried by the passenger. Air Customs had seized 100 e-cigarettes worth ₹1 lakh and 39,800 foreign cigarettes worth ₹9.45 lakh last week.
Officials also informed that gold in compound form had been found to be concealed inside the body of a passenger who had arrived from Dammam on March 1. Upon extraction, the compound yielded 992.44 grams of 24-carat gold worth ₹62.74 lakh.
