TIRUCHY: AIU sleuths from Tiruchy International Airport seized gold worth Rs 28.30 lakh in a form of paste concealed in the footwear by a passenger on Thursday. It is said, while the officials from AIU were checking the baggage of the passengers bound from UAE via Colombo by Srilankan airways, they suspected the movement of a male passenger and soon they took him separately and conducted an inspection in his baggage. Later, the officials found that the passenger was concealing gold worth Rs 28.30 lakh as a paste in his footwear and they seized the yellow metal. Further investigations are on.