1.5 kg gold seized at Guwahati railway station, two held
Guwahati, Mar 15 (IBNS): The Government Railway Police(GRP) on Thursday seized 9 gold bars weighing approximately 1.5 kg from the Dibrugarh-New Delhi bound Rajdhani Express train at Guwahati railway station.
During the regular checking, the GRP personnel recovered the gold bars from two persons who carried it from Dimapur in Nagaland to Delhi.
The recovered gold has been valued that of Rs 45 lakh.
The GRP personnel arrested Bikash Khanna, resident of Tiloknagar in New Delhi and Ajoy Bhalla of Matiawalli Gali, Delhi
A top official of GRP said that, the seizure gold bars were hidden on their waist.
In past five years, huge quantity of gold valued of over Rs 100 crore were seized by security personnel at Guwahati and other parts of the state.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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