Gold, US dollars seized at Chennai airport

Gold worth Rs 14 lakh and USD 7,500 were seized in different cases at the airport here over the past two days, officials said today.

Customs officials, on a tip-off, intercepted a 24-year-old man who arrived from Riyadh yesterday and seized 463 grams of gold from him, a customs release said.

The passenger had concealed the gold in a gas stove that was inside his baggage, it said.

Officials cut open the stove and recovered the gold.

In the second incident, officials recovered USD 7,500 worth Rs 5 lakh in Indian currency from a 39-year-old passenger bound for Hong Kong from here on June 21, it added.