Gold biscuits worth Rs 5 crore seized by DRI

Kolkata: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized a consignment of 140 gold biscuits worth around Rs 5 crore and arrested two persons from the Mahatma Gandhi Road Metro station on Saturday evening.

Both the accused: Asit Roy and Shankar Sarkar are residents of Nadia who had boarded the train from Dum Dum station to deliver the consignment to a businessman in Burrabazar where trading of gold takes place. The DRI team caught them at the MG Road metro station and recovered 100 gold biscuits which weighed around 16.236 kg in total.

The accused had kept the gold biscuits wrapped in clothes and tied around their chests and waists to avoid detection.

After having interrogated the duo, the central agency suspects that the gold biscuits were made in Dubai and Switzerland and were smuggled through Bangladesh into India across the border. On Sunday Asit and Shankar were produced at the Bankshall Court which remanded them in the judicial custody till May 3.

The DRI has also been allowed by the judge to interrogate them in jail.