The directorate of revenue intelligence wing of Siliguri arrested four persons and recovered over 7kg of gold estimated to be worth some Rs 3.5 crore, and Rs 1 crore in cash on Tuesday.
DRI sources said officers caught two persons from Hashmi Chowk here with some gold and two of their suspected aides with some more gold at a jewellery shop on Hill Cart Road.
Bihar residents Bablu Paswan and Sonu Kumar Rezak, arrested at Hashmi Chowk, were planning to allegedly sell the gold to a jewellery shop on Hill Cart Road.
The arrested duo admitted they had come to Siliguri to sell gold at the Hill Cart Road store, a DRI source said. At the store, the DRI team arrested Prakash Biswas and Tapan Kumar of Alipurduar and Bihar, respectively, suspected aides of Bablu and Sonu.
“In all, 7.273kg gold and Rs 1 crore in cash were found from the arrested persons and the shop. The shop owner is absconding,” a source said.
DRI sources suspect a racket involved in selling illegally procured gold is active in Siliguri.
“The four arrested were produced before the additional chief judicial magistrate court in Siliguri on Wednesday and sent to 14-days’ jail custody,” Souvik Sengupta, the special public prosecutor, said.
