Kolkata, Vikas Kumar Gupta: Troops of the 145th battalion of the BSF South Bengal Frontier caught a driver with two silver-plated gold bangles hidden in the cabin of a truck and another with two cylindrical shaped gold paste hidden in his rectum. The passenger has been caught. Both the driver and the passenger were trying to smuggle these silver coated gold rings and gold paste from Bangladesh to India at Petrapole. The weight of the seized gold bangles and gold paste is approximately 936.870 grams. Whose price is said to be Rs 65 lakh.
BSF also caught a truck driver
According to BSF sources, in the first incident, information was received about smuggling of gold through the driver of an empty export truck on the border. After which the suspicious truck was stopped at the main gate of Petrapole. After preliminary investigation, on a thorough search of the truck, 02 rectangular silver coated gold bangles hidden under the driver’s seat cover inside the cabin of the truck were recovered. After this, the driver of the truck named Sahidul Mandal was taken into custody.
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Was bringing gold hidden in the cabin of the truck
Second incident: A passenger named Mohammad Ali Abdullah Kader reached the checking room at Petrapole border. While searching the passenger with a metal detector, the soldiers detected the presence of some metal in his body. After this the passenger was taken to a nearby toilet and a thorough search was conducted. During this time, two gold pieces were recovered from inside his rectum. The soldiers seized the gold and took the passenger into custody. During interrogation, the truck driver named Sahidul Mandal told that he was a truck driver in a transport company. He was going to get Rs 5,000 for delivering the gold consignment to India.
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Handed over to Petrapole Custom Office officials for legal proceedings
Here, a traveler named Mohammad Ali Abdullah Kader told that he had gone to Oman for hand embroidery work. After returning from there to Bangladesh, a person named Safiq Shaikh gave him 2 pieces of gold, which contained gold in the form of paste. By bringing it to the Indian border and handing it over to the gold supplier here, he was going to get Rs 10,000. The arrested smugglers and the seized gold have been handed over to Petrapole Custom Office officials for further legal proceedings.
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