Customs officials spent a busy night at the Mumbai International Airport’s Terminal 2 on Friday, peeking into suitcases, scraping the handle of purses and even feeding bananas to passengers to recover gold that was being smuggled into Mumbai. In a span of 12 hours, the efficient officials had confiscated a huge stash of the yellow metal, estimated to be worth over Rs 65 lakh from five passengers.

Mirza Yasir Hussain, an Indian national who arrived from Bangkok, camouflaged the solid gold chains of two purses