Air passenger held for bid to smuggle gold

A 21-year-old passenger, who arrived from Dubai, has been arrested at the airport here on charge of attempting to smuggle one kg gold biscuits valued at Rs 28.48 lakh, officials said today.
Shamu Ali, hailing from Thamarassery in the district, was found carrying the gold biscuits hidden in the base of a table lamp when Air Customs Intelligence officials checked him last night, they said.
This was the fourth incident of seizure of gold biscuits at the airport here during this month.