4 kg gold worth Rs 1 crore seized in M' luru

The 16 gold biscuits seized by DRI sleuths at Mangaluru Junction railway station.

In a haul involving two separate locations, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Mangaluru, seized about 4 kg of gold, valued at more than Rs 1 crore, at the Mangaluru International Airport and the Mangaluru Junction railway station on Saturday.

DRI deputy director Vinayak Bhat said in the first case, a couple from Kasargod were arrested for trying to smuggle 2.14 kg gold concealed in a belt worn by them. In the second incident, two passengers who had smuggled gold from Nepal and were travelling in a train to Kozhikode, were nabbed with 16 gold biscuits concealed in the inner pockets of their pants.