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Gold weighing 869 grams of 24-carat purity was confiscated from 5 passengers — including a woman — from Mangluru and Kasaragod. All of them had arrived from Dubai, officials said.
The smugglers used different modus operandi to evade detection — including concealment in form of paste and powder kept in jeans pants, underwear, vest (baniyan), shoes, and in the rectum.