COIMBATORE: The Customs Department has arrested two women for concealing gold worth Rs 62.4 lakh in sanitary pads at the Coimbatore airport. According to sources, Customs officers have seized 1.1 kg of gold from women identified as Deivani Radhakrishna and Vasanthi Ramaswamy.

The two arrived at the Coimbatore airport at 3.30 am on Wednesday on an Air Arabia flight from Sharjah, UAE. It is learnt that Deivani hails from Chennai while Vasanthi is a native of Pudukottai. Customs officials had already received information about them.