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29 gold pellets removed from smuggler’s stomach
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Print MANGALORE: An endoscopy conducted into the bowels of the gold smuggler from Dubai yielded 29 gold pellets weighing 428g. The gold valued at anything between Rs 12 lakh and Rs 14 lakh was thoroughly cleaned and handed over to customs officials.
But one pellet stuck near the small intestine couldn’t be removed. The smuggler, identified as 44-year-old Shashidharan, had swallowed the gold pellets to avoid detection by airport scanners.
The KMC doctors who first tried to extract the pellets using colonoscopy didn’t succeed and they opted for the upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. The 90-minute procedure began at 2.20pm and the patient who was at KMC, Attavar, was shifted to KMC, Jyothi, for it.
Doctors said the remaining pellet was moving and it may come out soon.
Customs officials said Shashidharan may not be arrested as the value of the gold recovered was less than Rs 20 lakh. Earlier, seizure of gold valued at Rs 5 lakh would have attracted arrest, but it was a bailable offence. He’ll be let off by customs after the officials recover the last pellet.
The victim had swallowed the pellets and successfully evaded scanner detection when he arrived from Dubai on January 31. But things went a little awry and he used laxatives to force them out. He got excruciating abdominal pain and got admitted to KMC Hospital here.
It’s learnt that the customs operation was led by Customs Special Preventive Superintendent Egbert Periera under the direction of Commissioner of Customs D Purushottam.
The bill for the hospital stay and procedure is Rs 27,000.
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