Kolkata, Nov 5: The Border Security Force on Sunday seized Rs 10 crore of smuggled gold after intercepting a motorcycle-borne individual at Bagda close to the Benapole-Petrapole India-Bangladesh border post in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district.
The person, arrested by jawans of BSF’s 68 Bn, has been identified as Ajar Mondal, a resident of Rajkol village quite close to the international border BSF sources said that a total 17 gold bars weighing 16.70 kg, whose estimated market price is Rs 10.25 crore, were seized from a belt that Mondal was sporting. On interrogation, he has confessed that he was just a carrier of the consignment from Bangladesh. (IANS)
