Guwahati : The Government Railway Police(GRP) on Thursday had seized 9 gold bars weighing approximately 1.5 kg from the Dibrugarh-New Delhi bound Rajdhani Express train at Guwahati railway station.
During the regular checking, the GRP personnel had recovered the gold bars from two persons who carried it from Dimapur in Nagaland to Delhi.
The recovered gold was valued of Rs 45 lakh.
The GRP personnel had arrested the person due identified as Bikash Khanna resident of Tiloknagar, New Delhi and Ajoy Bhalla, Matiawalli Gali, Delhi.
A top official of GRP said that, the seizure gold bars were hidden on their waist.
In past five years, huge quantity of gold valued of over Rs 100 crore were seized by security personnel at Guwahati and other parts of the state.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
