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Tamil Nadu: Man hides gold worth Rs 15 lakh in custom-made underwear, arrested at Trichy airport | WATCH
The gold paste was treated with chemicals and was 24 karat gold weighing 301 gm which is worth Rs 15.32 lakh.
The Customs officials at the Trichy airport in Tamil Nadu nabbed a smuggler flying from Singapore for hiding gold paste worth Rs 15 lakh in custom-made underwear.
The video of the same is doing rounds on the internet wherein the Customs Officials could be seen unveiling the underwear and taking out the gold paste from it. Reports said the man was busted during the interception.
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The man was travelling from Singapore to Trichy via an Indigo aircraft, a report in India Today said. The report further said the gold packet was concealed between two layers of cloth stitched together. The paste was treated with chemicals and was 24 karat gold weighing 301 gm which is worth Rs 15.32 lakh.
There have been several arrests made for overseas gold smuggling this year. Earlier, Customs officers seized 12 kg of gold from a group of Sudanese passengers at the Mumbai airport. The gold recovered from the smugglers was worth Rs 5.38 crore.
Reports said gold was hidden in a belt which was specially designed to smuggle the metal. The belt was worn by one of the passengers and was busted after officials sensed something illegal.
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In another incident, Customs Officials nabbed two men from Kozhikode, Kerala at Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru who attempted to smuggle gold worth Rs 97.4 lakh concealed in custom-made underwear.
Reports stated that one of the accused men landed from Abu Dhabi on Sunday, while the other landed a few hours earlier. The first man was caught smuggling 918 grams of gold worth Rs 47.3 lakh, while the second man was nabbed with 966 grams of gold worth Rs 50.08 lakh, reports said.
Apart from smuggling gold, there have been several reports of drug smuggling being busted at different International airports in India.
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CM M K Stalin extends free breakfast scheme for govt school students in Tamil Nadu
Chief Minister M K Stalin on Friday extended the free breakfast scheme for all the government school students across Tamil Nadu.
Chief Minister M K Stalin on Friday extended the free breakfast scheme for all the government school students across Tamil Nadu.
The chief minister celebrated the expansion by having breakfast with school students in Tirukkuvalai, Nagapattinam and sharing a meal with them, where M K Stalin’s father, former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi, was once a student.
This is not just a fund allotment but an investment in our children’s future. The Tamil Nadu government has invested in enhancing students’ minds and knowledge. This would definitely manifest in the form of talent and capacity-building which will profit the state, he said.
The state government has allocated Rs 404 crore for a programme launched in September last year. It aims to benefit 17 lakh enrolled children in over 31,000 schools in Tamil Nadu.
The chief minister had instructed elected representatives to launch the extension of the scheme in government primary schools in their constituencies.
The scheme was expanded after the pilot program that provided free breakfast to 114,000 students in grades 1-5. The program showed an increase in school attendance and improved the nutritional health of students in the state.
In September 2022, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu expressed his views on the scheme saying the scheme which has been rolled out for students of Class I to V in government schools is not a freebie, in fact, it is the foremost duty and responsibility of the State government to ensure its children are fed. Such schemes are the face of a government.
While speaking at the launch of the novel Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme, Stalin added that when he was interacting with students in a programme at Chennai, he asked a few students why they appeared tired and if they had eaten. The students responded him saying that they usually don’t eat in the morning, which struck a chord.
Many officials and teachers affirmed the same. That spark led to the birth of the free breakfast scheme. Through this scheme, every student shall enter classrooms with their stomachs full, he stated.
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Mother jumps in front of moving bus, kills herself to arrange for child’s fees in Tamil Nadu, heart-wrenching video surfaced
The incident also exposed how people face difficulties who try to make their children’s lives better by educating them. Many people said that true development would mean that no one is forced in that situation to take such a step.
A heart-wrenching incident was reported in Tamil Nadu where a woman jumped off ahead of a moving bus after getting misleading information from someone that her family would receive Rs 45,000 in case she died in an accident.
In the video, a mother killed herself by jumping in front of the moving bus to arrange money for her son’s education. Reportedly, a woman was a safai karmachari at the collector’s office in the Salem district of Tamil Nadu, the report said.
The woman made this fatal sacrifice because she was in need of money to pay her son’s college fees, so she decided to end her life to get the compensation of Rs 45,000.
The video has moved people. The internet users have expressed their grief and anguish over the incident. Netizens questioned and showed their anguish towards the situation that led a mother to kill herself for paying the education fees of her son.
The incident also exposed how people face difficulties who try to make their children’s lives better by educating them. Many people said that true development would mean that no one is forced in that situation to take such a step.
As per the police, a 46-year-old deceased woman was identified as Papathy, a resident of Salem district who was working as a sanitary worker in the Collector’s office. She had lost her husband long before and was a single mother parent to a daughter and a son. Papathy died after she came into a speeding that killed her at second Agraharam street in Salem. The police have registered a case, and an investigation is underway.
After inspecting the CCTV footage, the police were shocked to know that this was the woman’s second attempt to kill herself, Papathy had earlier attempted to jump before a moving bus but she could not succeed after a two-wheeler hit before she could fall into a bus. After a while, she repeated the act when another bus approached her. The entire episode was caught on camera, as per the reports.
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Tamil Nadu: Indian Army jawan’s video alleging molestation of his wife goes viral, police denies charges
The Indian Army said the well-being of families of army personnel are their priority, who stay away from the soldiers deployed in field areas.
An incident of molestation with an Army jawan’s wife came to light when an Army man who is currently posted in Kashmir, released a video message pleading for police action against the alleged attackers of his wife.
The Indian Army on Sunday put out a statement saying it got in touch with the police administration and assured proper investigation into the alleged molestation of jawan’s wife by 40 people in Tamil Nadu.
However, the Tamil Nadu Police has contradicted the claims by the Army personnel that his wife was stripped half naked and beaten by men in the state. Officials in the state are aware about the matter as per the report.
According to report, the jawan’s wife alleged that she was attacked and molested by more than 40 people. They verbally abused her using vulgar language. They also touched her inappropriately. They were not letting her family live in peace. They were threatening her, she said in Vellore on Sunday.
The police said their initial investigation shows that no one has attacked or insulted the jawan’s wife. The case is more of a dispute over a land lease between the soldier’s wife and some men. The police also said the department has given protection to her and observed that the video message released by the soldier has been exaggerated.
The havildar rank jawan from Thiruvannamalai district had released a video on June 10, speaking in Tamil that went viral on social media after a retired Army officer Colonel N Thiagarajan shared it on Twitter. Talking to reporter, the Thiruvannamalai SP said an FIR was registered under relevant sections on a complaint lodged by the jawan. The two accused Ramu and Hariprasad have already been arrested.
The Indian Army said the well-being of families of army personnel are their priority, who stay away from the soldiers deployed in field areas.
The Indian Army’s Northern Command issues their statement, an Indian Army soldier in uniform gave a statement fearing for the safety of his family. Army has already contacted the Police authorities who have assured all help post-investigation.
Tamil Nadu BJP president Annamalai also said he has spoken to the jawan on call, posted in Kashmir and he was ashamed to hear such incident on the soil of Tamil Nadu. He assured all the help to the jawan’s wife to get justice in this case.
