Mangaluru: Customs officials confiscated smuggled gold worth Rs 54.3 lakhs from a passenger at Mangaluru International Airport on April 27.

The passenger hailing from Dakshin Kannada District of Karnataka was found to have concealed three oval-shaped objects containing gold in paste form weighing 825 gms in his rectum. On extraction,

Gold of 24-carat purity weighing 750.000 grams (net), valued at Rs. 54,30,000/- was recovered and seized, the officials said in a release on social media platform X.

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