Gold worth Rs 10 lakh seized from passenger at airport

Bhubaneswar, Feb 22 The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the customs department Friday seized more than 283 gm gold from a passenger after he landed at the Biju Patnaik International Airport here.
The value of the gold seized is around Rs 10 lakh, a customs department official said.
The passenger came here from Bangkok in a Kolkata-bound flight and he was trying to smuggle the gold into the country, the official said