Kolkata July 20 (IANS) The Border Security Force (BSF) seized 60 gold biscuits worth close to Rs 2 crore from a smuggler at Hakimpur in West Bengal s North 24 Parganas district on Thursday.
Acting on a tip BSF personnel laid an ambush near Sonai river and saw a person trying to cross it from Bangladesh around 1 p.m.
According to a BSF statement the suspect was clutching a rope one end of which was tied on the Indian side.
On being confronted the miscreant escaped but left behind a white plastic bag which contained 60 gold biscuits weighing about seven kg.
The BSF s South Bengal Frontier unit has seized 27 kg of gold valued at over Rs 8 crore and caught nine smugglers this year.
--IANS
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