The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (Siliguri unit) arrested two inhabitants of Rajasthan from New Jalpaiguri Railway station and seized from them 12 gold bars worth around Rs 1.14 crore.
Intelligence officers acted on a tip-off to nab Mangi Lal, 47 and Yogesh Soni, 25, residents of Bikaner who were travelling by the Brahmaputra Mail on Saturday. The duo, who boarded the train from Guwahati and were bound for Delhi, had concealed the gold bars in knee caps that they were wearing, sources said.
Officials suspect the gold bars, weighing 2kg in all, had been smuggled through the India-Myanmar border. The delivery point of the consignment was Delhi.
Caught at NJP station, the two were taken to the the DRI office. This is the third major gold haul by the DRI in Siliguri in recent times. On August 16, officials recovered 26kg of gold worth Rs 15 crore from three Maharashtra residents. In March, the DRI seized 5.83kg gold worth Rs 2.53 crore from residents of Dinhata, Cooch Behar.
Job scam arrest
Englishbazar police busted a job racket and arrested two persons from Manikchak in Malda district on Saturday. Rajkumar Mondal, 35, and Saddam Hussain, 32, of Khairtala village, Manichak, allegedly duped two youths of Mothabari area of Rs 19 lakh by promising them government jobs.
