Police seize 1.750 kg of gold worth Rs 50 lakh from Vaishali

Police today arrested two smugglers and seized 1.750 kg of gold worth Rs 50 lakh from them in Vaishali district.

Superintendent of Police, Rakesh Kumar said acting on a tip off, police raided Ganga Bridge Colony under Industrial police station area in Vaishali district and seized 1.750 kg of gold from the two smugglers who had hid the gold biscuits in their thighs.

The arrested smugglers have been identified as Mohammad Fakhruddin, a resident of East Midnapur and Najjo Shah, a resident of West Midnapur district of West Bengal, the SP said adding that both the smugglers had coloured the gold biscuit with ink in order to hide it.
 

The smugglers were arrested by the police while they were carrying out deal to sell the gold, he said adding that seized gold biscuit bore the mark of Thailand and Myanmar.