KOZHIKODE: The customs is conducting a raid at the house of Karat Faizal, Left Front councillor of Kozhikode Koduvally municipality, in the gold smuggling case. Officials of the Customs Kochi Unit, reached his house at 4 am Thursday morning. The customs who took Faizal into custody, will be taken to Kochi.

Organisations including the Muslim League came forward with protest marches following the news of the customs raid. The NIA had earlier conducted a raid in some shops at Koduvally in connection with the gold smuggling.

Officials of the customs unit in Kochi came secretly without informing the Kozhikode unit. It was the customs preventive department who came for the raid. Faizal was the main leader of the party led by Koduvally MLA P T A Rahim. This party has now merged with the INL. Faizal has a close relationship with P T A Rahim.