Gold worth Rs 2.49 crore was seized from three passengers of an express train at Pune railway station here today, railway police said.
"During a check conducted inside the Chennai-Mumbai CST Express (when it arrived at station), our police team came across three suspicious passengers. When the trio was asked about what they were carrying inside the two plastic boxes, they started giving vague answers," an inspector with Government Railway Police (GRP) said.
When the boxes were opened, gold ornaments and pieces of gold sheet collectively worth Rs 2.49 crore were found inside them, the officer said.
Since the police team did not find their answers satisfactory and as they could not furnish any documents related to gold, the trio was taken into custody.
"We have handed over the seized gold to the Income Tax department for further investigation," said the officer.
The trio is being further interrogated, he said.
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