RAJKOT, GUJARAT (PTI) In one of the biggest ever hauls of contraband gold, police recovered 3400 gold biscuits weighing 400 kgs and valued at over RS 140 million from an island, 25 km’s off Khambaliya coast in the Arabian Sea. Police have arrested three people, two Kutchis and one Pakistani. The boat has been seized. Barlier, the Indian coast guard arrested nine Pakistanis from a highly sophisticated vessel off Jakhav coast. They told the customs that they dumped gold biscuits worth RS 60 million into the sea.
In the biggest ever haul of contraband silver, directorate of revenue intelligence officials here have seized 3,699 kgs of silver valued at RS 25.8 million, which was being smuggled into the country from Singapore.
The smugglers, making use of diplomatic immunity granted to foreign missions, had tried to pass off the 120 slabs of silver as diplomatic baggage belonging to an East European embassy, DRI officials said.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 20, 1989
