Chennai, August 08: Customs officials today seized over 46 kg of dead dried seahorses worth more than Rs four lakh at the international airport here and arrested a Sri Lankan national in this connection.
The officials checked one Haja Mohideen Mohamed Rafeek (51), who was about to proceed towards security check and detected the contraband, sealed in two nylon gunny bags, an official press release here said.
The passenger and the seized goods were immediately handed over to the State Forest Department for further investigation, it said.
–Agencies