Judah’s Limerick
If you are flying in to Chennai from the Middle East
Specially Dubai, the customs men show not the least
interest in your exquisite anterior
but focus only on your clumsy posterior
For who knows they might be in for a feast!
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News Story
Man Flies In From Dubai With 40 Lakh Gold In Rectum, Arrested In Chennai
Gold was carried in the form of four bundles of gold paste weighing 948 grams.
Gold weighing 810 gm and worth ₹ 40.35 lakh was extracted from four bundles.
This January, Customs authorities in Chennai made several seizures over 3 days, adding up to a haul of 9 kg of the precious metal. The officials searched 17 passengers back from Dubai and found that they were carrying 48 bundles of gold paste in their rectums. Gold weighing 7.72 kg and worth ₹ 3.93 crores was recovered from the bundles. Further search led to the recovery of 12 gold cut bits weighing 386 grams and a gold chain weighing 74 gm from the passengers’ handbags.
The total gold recovered, 8.18 kg, was worth ₹ 4.16 crore, according to the Customs. Eight persons, including a woman, were arrested in this connection.
In another case at the same time, a man was arrested after he was found to be carrying 3 bundles of gold paste inside his rectum. On extraction, gold worth ₹ 14 lakh was seized.
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