Varanasi: Customs authorities at Lal Bahadur Shastri International (LBSI) airport in Varanasi seized gold weighing 333.65 grams and one iPhone from a woman passenger who arrived from Sharjah. The custom officials recovered the gold from the inner walls of a deodorant bottle, steel flasks and also from a pearl necklace found on the passenger.
According to authorities at the airport, the recovered gold was worth Rs 16,71,631. An iPhone seized from the passenger put the total value of recovered goods over Rs 17 lakh, they added.