A team of police led by North Tripura district police superintendent Bhanupada Chakraborty arrested one smuggler and recovered gold biscuit worth Rs 15 lakh from his possession at Dharmanagar. The operation was initiated as per the inputs of secret sources, police said.
“Reports of trans-border gold smuggling are not new. Repeatedly, the police are informed of such illegal activities taking place in the bordering stretches of the district. Today, a specific input has been generated and we have succeeded arrest one person with an illegally smuggled gold biscuit”, SP North Tripura Bhanupada Chakraborty said.
He also said, the gold biscuit weighed 241 grams. The total market value of the biscuit would be somewhere near Rs 15 lakh. The person arrested in connection with the incident was identified as Nagendra Das (57).
Police sources said, “gold is used as a medium of sending money from Bangladesh to India. Using Tripura, huge consignments of drugs and contraband items are smuggled in Bangladesh, and in turn, the receivers of consignments send gold biscuits. These biscuits are later converted into cash in local markets”.
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