Assam: CISF recovers 20 gold biscuits
Guwahati, Jan 19 (IBNS): Assam becomes a transit route for illegal gold trade from neighbouring countries to various places in India.
The CISF personnel on Friday held three persons and recovered huge quantity of gold biscuits at two airports in Assam.
According to the reports, the CISF personnel arrested one person at Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati and recovered 6 gold biscuits.
The arrested person has been identified as Ankush Soni hailing from Rajasthan.
Soni was carrying 990 gram gold in his rectum.
Value of the recovered gold has been estimated at Rs 30 lakh.
The person was trying to carry the gold to Delhi by an Indigo flight from Guwahati.
Later, the arrested person and the gold were handed over to Customs department.
On the other hand, the CISF personnel has arrested two other persons at Rowriah Airport in upper Assam’s Jorhat district and recovered 14 gold biscuits.
A top official of Customs department said that, during the routine check up the CISF personnel has detected the person and recovered the gold biscuits.
“They are rectum carrier and one person was carrying 6 gold biscuits in two packets and another person carrying 8 gold biscuits in two packets,” the Customs official said.
The arrested persons were identified as Pawan Kumar and Surender Singh and they were trying to carry the gold biscuits to Delhi by a Jet Airways flight.
Earlier, the CISF personnel had caught two persons with rectum carrier of gold at the international airport in Guwahati last week and recovered 1.650 kg gold.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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