In yet another incident of gold seizure at the Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) here, Customs personnel on Monday detained a passenger for his alleged involvement in gold smuggling.
Later, they seized around 170 grams of yellow metal worth Rs 5.5 lakh from his possession.
Acting on spot intelligence, officers of the Air Intelligence unit of the Customs intercepted a passenger of Indian origin hailing from Tamil Nadu, who arrived at the airport from Kuala Lumpur by an AirAsia flight.
On conducting body search, a gold kada with silver coating and two pieces of gold, which were concealed in his rectum, were recovered from him.
Sources said the passenger had planned to deliver the gold to a person and get commission.
Meanwhile, the officials are interrogating the accused to unearth more information from him. Sources said investigation into the case is on.
Earlier, on September 12, gold worth Rs 21.89 lakh had been seized from a passenger at the city airport.