Police recovered a gold bar weighting around 240 grams and Bangladeshi currency from two different places in Tripura on Thursday. A gold bar was seized from a person in Dharmanagar in North Tripura district. In another incident, Khowai Police recovered some Bangladeshi currency from a woman today.
A team police led by North Tripura district police superintendent Bhanupada Chakraborty arrested one smuggler and recovered gold bar 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 illegally smuggled gold bar”, SP North Tripura Bhanupada Chakraborty said.
He also said, the gold bar weighed 241 gram. The total market value of the bar 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 bars. These bars are later converted into cash in local markets”.
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In a separate incident, police recovered 20,000 Bangladeshi currency ( Taka) from a woman at Singicherra area under Khowai district today. The woman was coming from Asharambari to Khowai. Police had advance information of smuggling business through the road from Asharambari.
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Later police detained a Black colour Magic car at 11 a.m. During raid on the car, police detained one woman and recovered Bangladeshi Taka. The name of the woman is Aparna Deb (29). During interrogation she said that her husband was staying at Bangalore and her in-laws house was at Bangladesh and the amount sent from Bangladesh. She was going to Puratan Bazar of Khowai to convert the currency into rupees. However police have not filed any case.
