Gold worth Rs 1.65 crore seized in Manipur, Bengal
Kolkata, June 28: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized around 5.3 kg of gold worth Rs 1.65 crore smuggled from Myanmar in two separate seizures from Manipur and West Bengal's Siliguri, the agency said on Thursday.
Acting on inputs, DRI sleuths intercepted a vehicle at Khudenthabi on the Moreh-Imphal road in Manipur and recovered 20 gold bars weighing 3.3 kg in total. The gold bars, valued at Rs 1.02 core, were found concealed in the fuel tank of the vehicle on Monday.
"The driver Md Gayasuddin of Lilong has been arrested under the Customs Act and placed under judicial custody. He has confessed that these gold bars were smuggled from Myanmar through Moreh in Manipur," a DRI release said.
In a separate catch, 2 kgs of gold valued at 63.27 lakh were seized from a person at New Jalpaiguri Railway Station in Siliguri on Tuesday.
DRI sleuths recovered the gold bars from Firoz Sekh of West Bengal, while he was about to travel in the Sealdah bound Padatik Express.
The DRI has seized close to 142 kg of gold and gold jewellery valued at nearly Rs 26 crores from West Bengal and northeast India in the current financial year. The smuggled gold is mainly coming from Bangladesh, Myanmar, Bhutan and even from China, the release said.
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RR beat RCB by six wickets in IPL
Guwahati (PTI): Blistering fifties by Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Dhruv Jurel powered Rajasthan Royals to a six-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bengaluru in their IPL match here on Friday.
Sent in to bat, RCB rode on a fighting half-century by skipper Rajat Patidar (63) to post 201 for 8.
Virat Kohli (32), Romario Shepherd (22) and Venkatesh Iyer (29) also chipped in with useful contributions.
In reply, Sooryavanshi (78 off 26 balls) and Dhruv Jurel (81 not out off 43 balls) shared a 37-ball 108-run partnership for the second wicket to set the platform. Krunal Pandya (2/30) tried to bring them back with back-to-back wickets.
But Jurel, in the company of Ravindra Jadeja (24), completed the task with another 68-run stand, with two overs to spare.
For RR, Jofra Archer (2/33), Ravi Bishnoi (2/32) and Brijesh Sharma (2/37) took two wickets.
Brief scores:
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: 201 for 8 in 20 overs (Rajat Patidar 63; Jofra Archer 2/33, Ravi Bishnoi 2/32, Brijesh Sharma 2/37).
Rajasthan Royals: 202 for 4 in 18 overs (Vaibhav Sooryavanshi 78, Dhruv Jurel 80 not out; Krunal Pandya 2/30, Josh Hazlewood 2/44).
