Gold haul seized in Bengal, 2 held
Kolkata, June 7: BSF personnel seized two gold bars and six gold biscuits worth around Rs 84 lakh in two separate raids in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district and arrested two Indian smugglers, a BSF official said on Thursday.
Acting on a tip off, Border Security Force (BSF) troopers on Wednesday laid an ambush in North 24 Pargana district's Haridaspur-Kalyani area and arrested a man coming towards Haridaspur village on a boat.
"The suspected smuggler named Kamal Majhi, 48, was arrested by the BSF. Two gold bars weighing approximately 2 kg and worth Rs 62.38 lakh were seized from him," DIG, South Bengal Frontier, Prabhat Kumar Singh, said in a release.
In the other case, a BSF trooper of border outpost Amudia of the same district arrested another suspect coming from the Bangladesh side and seized gold from him.
"Babulal Biswas, 42, a resident of Amudia village was arrested while illegally crossing into Indian territory from Bangladesh on Wednesday afternoon. Four gold biscuits and two gold bars worth Rs. 22.27 lakh were seized from him," a BSF officer said.
The BSF command have seized over 10 kg of smuggled gold worth Rs 3.27 crore and have arrested four gold smugglers in 2018.
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Kundapur: Jet ski boat capsizes off Trasi beach; dead body of rider found in sea water
Kundapur: The dead body of a 41-year-old jet ski rider, Rohidas, also known as Ravi, who had drowned in a jet ski mishap at Trasi beach on Saturday evening was found on the beach, in the area behind the crematorium at Hospet here on Monday morning.
The body was seen floating in the sea waters off the shore by two local fishermen Shasa Kharvi and Mohan Kharvi at around 3 am on Monday, approximately 36 hours after the accident. The fishermen are learned to have informed the Coast Guard Coastal Control Squad staff member Nishanth Kharvi, who, with help from the fishermen, got Rohidas’ body out of the waters and brought the matter to the notice of the police.
Further, Ibrahim Gangolli, staff member of 24x7 Ambulance Service, Gangolli; beach management staff member Suresh Koderi, Rohidas’ colleagues and Nishanth Kharvi got the disaster victim’s body off the beach.
Gangolli Police have visited the Trasi beach to conduct an inspection of the area.
Rohidas, a rider on a jet ski boat of the Beluga Water Sports company at the Trasi beach, was taking a tourist on a sea excursion on Saturday, when he lost control over the boat. As the boat capsized, the tourist escaped, but Rohidas drowned in the sea.
