NEW DELHI: Gold smugglers are resorting to increasingly desperate measures to get the metal past customs after nearly a dozen people were caught with bullion stashed in their rectums.
India is the world’s second-largest consumer of gold and smuggling has been increasing since duties were raised on the precious metal.
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