CHENNAI: In a major haul, Customs officials seized more than 50 sovereigns of gold worth Rs 9.4 lakh from six passengers at the airport here on Wednesday.The attempt to smuggle gold into India was made with the novel method of camouflaging the yellow metal into shapes of buckles of the waist belt, worn by the passengers, Customs Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Agarwal said. Acting on information, customs officials intercepted six passengers, holding Indian passports, from Colombo. A search resulted in the detection of buckles made of white-coated crude gold rods in the waist belt worn by them, he said. The passengers claimed that they were given the buckles by an unknown person at Colombo airport to be handed over to an unknown person outside the airport here for Rs 1,000 each.Auto driver arrested for murderA 29-year-old auto driver was arrested by the police for allegedly murdering a man at Thiruverkadu on June 5.Following a complaint by P Suresh of Ayyambakkam that his father Parasuraman had been murdered and his body flung into a lake, a special team was formed. On Tuesday, the team found a man loitering near the newly built bridge at Thiruverkadu and picked him up for questioning. He was identified as S Ramesh alias Pachaiappan (29), an auto driver of Ayyambakkam. During inquiry, he claimed that despite several warnings Parasuraman frequently came to his house and took his father for drinking. This led to quarrels between him and his wife. On Sunday, Ramesh said he picked up the victim in his auto on the promise of buying him drinks, assaulted him, killed him with a stone and threw the body into the Koladi lake.Man shot by son Rajamani (63), a farmer from Kurinchikuppam near Vaniyambadi was killed aftre his drunk son Saravanan shot him with a country rifle after the latter refused to finance his second wedding by selling a plot of land.
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