On Sunday, troops from Nagaland Police’s Drugs Cell manning the inter-State narcotics checkpoint at Khuzama found gold bars weighing 48.14 kg valued over Rs 22.7 crore (Rs 22,78,56,620) from a vehicle in the state’s single largest seizure of smuggled bullion.
Sandeep Tamgadge, additional director general of police (L&O), told a press conference at PHQ on Monday that police officers stopped a XUV-300 (MN0IAS1325) at the Khuzama inter-State narcotics checkpoint on the Kohima-Imphal national highway and thoroughly searched it, resulting in the recovery of the smuggled gold.
The gold bars were hidden behind the cover of the vehicle’s gear lever, he added, and were packed in 29 packets, each holding 10 gold bars totaling around 166 gramme.
The gold bars and the vehicle have been seized, according to Tamgadge, and two people have been detained for further questioning: Saurabh Singh (35) son of Jaypal Singh and Pawan Kumar (45) son of Jitendraraveer Singh.
Both individuals are Uttar Pradesh residents. He claimed that the seized objects would be deposited in proper malkhana and presented to the court once the investigation was completed, claiming that this was the state’s single largest capture of illegal bullion.
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