(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) w Delhi April 23 - An old indian patient aged 63 complaining of abdominal pain and when a team of Indian surgeons opened up the stomach they found a fortune of 12 gold bars hidden in his belly reported the CNN on Wednesday. The patient whose name was not revealed apparently smuggled them into India to evade import duty police and doctors said. Each bar weighed 33 grams said C.S. Ramachandran who conducted the surgery at a hospital in New Delhi on April 9. The 63-year-old patient an Indian citizen visited the hospital a day before with severe stomach pain and nausea. "He told us he had accidentally swallowed the cap of a plastic bottle" Ramachandran said. "We couldn't (either) make out they were gold bars" the doctor said. "But yes X-Rays showed there was intestinal blockage which required surgery." The hospital handed over the precious extraction to local police. The bars have since been sent to customs which is conducting a probe said Alok Kumar a deputy commissioner of police. The patient was discharged after the surgery and is doing fine.
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