2 men, ‘who brought illegal gold from Dubai’, arrested in Surat

An authoritative said that pursuing the tip-off, Ahmedabad DRI officials stood ticker extracurricular the Ahmedabad airdrome connected Sunday morning. After the 2 suspects, having cleared the formalities astatine the airport, came retired and sat successful a vehicle, the officials followed them till the railway station.

The officials past boarded the bid and took seats successful the aforesaid bogie arsenic the suspects portion abstracted teams of DRI officials were stationed astatine Bharuch, Ankleshwar and Surat railway stations arsenic the destination of the duo was not clear. As the bid arrived astatine Surat railway presumption connected Sunday afternoon, a antheral entered the manager and made his mode towards the 2 suspects, said officials. As soon arsenic they exchanged a fewer parcels, officials seated successful the bid arsenic good arsenic those stationed astatine the Surat presumption closed successful and caught clasp of the trio.

All 3 were pulled retired of the manager and taken to the DRI bureau successful Surat, said officials.

After opening the parcels, officials recovered golden successful the signifier of liquid paste stitched successful a acceptable of undergarments. Officials said they seized astir 8 kilogram of golden paste worthy implicit Rs 7 crore.

Police arrested each the 3 accused who were aboriginal identified arsenic passengers Deepak Behra from Mumbai and Naresh Singh of Punjab, portion the idiosyncratic who received the consignment was identified arsenic Gautam Oswal — a nonmigratory of Adajan country successful Surat.

On Monday evening, each the 3 arrested persons were produced earlier court. Officials astatine Surat DRI said that the passports and different question documents of some passengers were seized and a probe has been initiated.

“We got input astir 2 passengers travelling successful the planetary formation from Dubai. We would person caught them straight from the airdrome by sharing inputs with the customs officials of Ahmedabad, but we planned connected catching the receiver arsenic well…they sat successful the Karnavati Express train; our teams besides followed them and sat successful the aforesaid bogey, keeping a ticker connected their activities each this while,” said an official.

“We didn’t cognize their destination, so, arsenic a substance of precaution, our teams were stationed astatine Bharuch, Ankleshwar, and Surat railway stations. We intelligibly instructed them not to enactment instantly but to hold and observe their (the suspects’) activities…,” the authoritative added.

A root astatine DRI said, “Oswal claimed that helium runs a golden concern and besides has a shop, which we are verifying. Naresh Singh stays successful UAE, portion Behra works astatine a banal speech steadfast successful Mumbai. We person besides seized the passport of Oswal and recovered that helium had made aggregate visits to Dubai. Our teams besides carried retired raids astatine his location and seized 5 golden biscuits and overseas currencies of countries similar the US, UAE, Vietnam, and Thailand. Further probe is going on.”