DRI seizes gold worth Rs 3.77 cr from Majhdia stn

Kolkata: Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized gold worth Rs 3.77 crore from Majhdia railway station and arrested two smugglers. Both of them were produced before the court on Wednesday and remanded to judicial custody.

According to DRI officials, they received a tip-off regarding a syndicate which is actively engaged in smuggling huge quantity of foreign origin gold from Bangladesh into India, through the Indo-Bangladesh border at Nadia and sending it to different parts of India.

Working on the information, sleuths came to know that Gede is the point through which the gold would be smuggled. Immediately, an elaborate plan was made. On Monday, DRI sleuths scanned passengers at Gede station. After a while, two suspects were marked. Sleuths saw them boarding the Gede-Ranaghat Local.

During the journey, sleuths kept a strict vigil on the duo. The two suspects were intercepted while deboarding the train at Majhdia railway station. During a search, 100 gold biscuits of foreign origin gold, weighing 116.64 gm each and worth Rs 3.77 crore, were found concealed in their specially tailored waist belts.

The duo was immediately detained and brought to the Kolkata office of DRI. They were interrogated thoroughly. As they were not able to provide any satisfactory answers or document in support of the gold biscuits, they have been arrested.

Previously DRI's Siliguri unit had seized 9.296 kg of gold bars which had been smuggled from Myanmar to India through the Indo-Myanmar Border in Manipur, during November 2018. The gold bars were concealed in a tailored cloth belt tied around the waist of the accused in that case as well. One person had been arrested in the incident.