Siliguri, May 14 (UNI) Smuggled gold worth Rs 8 crore from Myanmar have been seized from six persons, arrested from a bus in this commercial town of north Bengal, the gateway of northeast, sources at the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) said here today.
The gold, weighing about 24,150 kgs, valued at close to Rs 8 crores, was seized during a frisking of a bus on Monday evening and six persons from Manipur, have been arrested under the Customs Act, 1962.
DRI sources claimed the arrest and seizure of smuggled gold from Myanmar though Manipur was major blow to the smuggling racket in the region.