By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR/BERHAMPUR: A workforce of Excise officers discovered money amounting to about Rs 1.22 crore throughout a search in a bus underneath Baidyanathpur police limits in Berhampur on Tuesday night.
Subsequent probed led to restoration of 24 gold biscuits, valued at about Rs 1.2 crore, from a jeweller of town.
During routine checking of autos close to Ankuli, the Excise squad discovered 35-year-old Dashrath Shaukar, a local of Maharashtra’s Sangli district, to be carrying the money which he couldn’t account for satisfactorily.
The Excise officers handed over Shaukar to Baidyanathpur police for additional investigation. While questioning Shaukar, the law enforcement officials established that he had obtained the money in Rs 500 denomination notes from Berhampur-based jeweller Anand Subuti (60) for supplying him 24 gold biscuits weighing 2.2 kg and price Rs 1.2 crore.
Baidyanathpur police then questioned Anand Jewellery proprietor Subuti and seized the gold biscuits from his possession. Since South Africa has been printed on the gold biscuits, police suspect the gold was probably smuggled from a international nation however the verification is continuous.
Shaukar revealed earlier than the police that he works for a Cuttack-based jeweler however investigators are but to substantiate his claims. “Neither Shaukar nor Subuti was able to produce any documents related to the seized cash and gold biscuits,” Berhampur SP Saravana Vivek M advised The New Indian Express.
The two accused might be handed over to the Income Tax Department officers for additional investigation, he added.
BHUBANESWAR/BERHAMPUR: A workforce of Excise officers discovered money amounting to about Rs 1.22 crore throughout a search in a bus underneath Baidyanathpur police limits in Berhampur on Tuesday night.
Subsequent probed led to restoration of 24 gold biscuits, valued at about Rs 1.2 crore, from a jeweller of town.
During routine checking of autos close to Ankuli, the Excise squad discovered 35-year-old Dashrath Shaukar, a local of Maharashtra’s Sangli district, to be carrying the money which he couldn’t account for satisfactorily.
The Excise officers handed over Shaukar to Baidyanathpur police for additional investigation. While questioning Shaukar, the law enforcement officials established that he had obtained the money in Rs 500 denomination notes from Berhampur-based jeweller Anand Subuti (60) for supplying him 24 gold biscuits weighing 2.2 kg and price Rs 1.2 crore.
Baidyanathpur police then questioned Anand Jewellery proprietor Subuti and seized the gold biscuits from his possession. Since South Africa has been printed on the gold biscuits, police suspect the gold was probably smuggled from a international nation however the verification is continuous.
Shaukar revealed earlier than the police that he works for a Cuttack-based jeweler however investigators are but to substantiate his claims. “Neither Shaukar nor Subuti was able to produce any documents related to the seized cash and gold biscuits,” Berhampur SP Saravana Vivek M advised The New Indian Express.
The two accused might be handed over to the Income Tax Department officers for additional investigation, he added.
