Aizawl, April 22 : The Anti-Smuggling unit of Customs Division in Mizoram’s Aizawl had seized 29 gold bars worth of Rs 9.16 crore and arrested a person in connection with it.
Deputy Commissioner of Aizawl Customs Division James Guite said that, based on intelligence input, the customs official had launched operation at Muallungthu area, outskirt of Aizawl on Saturday evening and seized 29 gold bars.
Customs officials had arrested a person named 55-year-old Hualzidinga, a resident of Mizoram-Myanmar border town Champhai Venglai in connection with it.
The top Customs official said that a Mahindra Bolero vehicle bearing registration no MZ-01K-8203 on which the arrested person was transporting the gold bars smuggled in from Myanmar.
A case has been registered vide Customs seizure case no 01/CL/IMP/CUS/As-AIZ/2018-19 and the arrested person was produced before a local court in Aizawl today.
The Customs Division in Aizawl had seized a total of 8.3 kgs of gold bars in last year.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
