Silver worth over Rs 1.50 crore seized in Mahasamund

The Chhattisgarh Police have secured a large consignment of silver from smugglers in the Singhoda police station area. The police have recovered 235 kgs of silver bricks worth Rs 1 crore 76 lakhs. A total of 243 kgs of silver has been recovered from the smugglers. The police have also recovered cash worth more than Rs 5 lakhs from the smugglers.

Mahasamund, (Chhattisgarh):The Chhattisgarh Police have secured a large consignment of silver from smugglers in the Singhoda police station area. The police have recovered 235 kgs of silver bricks worth Rs 1 crore 76 lakhs. A total of 243 kgs of silver has been recovered from the smugglers. The police have also recovered cash worth more than Rs 5 lakhs from the jewellery smugglers.

Two people have been arrested in this case. Both of them were smuggling silver from Odisha to Uttar Pradesh through a car. The Police caught both the smugglers during vehicle checking near Rehtikhol on NH-53. They were going from Odisha to Agra (Uttar Pradesh) with a huge consignment of silver. Both the accused Gaurav Shalya and Sanjay Khan are residents of Agra in Uttar Pradesh.

During the checking, they failed to procure any documents for the silver jewellery. The police confiscated all the goods and informed the Income Tax Department as well. The police also found 8 kgs of silver jewellery worth Rs 5 lakh 60 thousand.