{"id":315766,"date":"2017-10-01T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/4022-gold-bars-worth-rs-9-cr-seized"},"modified":"2017-10-01T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T18:30:00","slug":"gold-bars-worth-rs-9-cr-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2017\/10\/01\/gold-bars-worth-rs-9-cr-seized\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold bars worth Rs 9 cr seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">\n<p>IMPHAL | Oct 1<\/p>\n<p>Customs Division personnel in Manipur on Sunday confiscated 12 pieces of gold bars weighing nearly 20 kg \u2014 and worth Rs 9 crore \u2014 along National Highway 37, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got a tip-off that gold smuggled from Myanmar would be taken along the national highway and, accordingly, we laid a trap,\u201d N. Meiraba, Superintendent of Customs Division said. The seizure was made at Yurembam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt 6 a.m., one jeep came along and, on checking it, we found the gold bars concealed in it,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>He said two persons \u2014 Mohammad Yakub and Mohammad Nizamuddin, both from Manipur \u2014 have been arrested in this connection.<\/p>\n<p>Meiraba said both are being questioned to establish where they were taking the bars and to trace the kingpin.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmarese gold, which is comparatively cheaper, has heavy demand in many states.<\/p>\n<p>Despite seizures and arrests, there have been increasing instances of smuggling of gold bars by road and by air.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/4022-gold-bars-worth-rs-9-cr-seized\">http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/4022-gold-bars-worth-rs-9-cr-seized<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>IMPHAL | Oct 1<\/p>\n<p>Customs Division personnel in Manipur on Sunday confiscated 12 pieces of gold bars weighing nearly 20 kg &mdash; and worth Rs 9 crore &mdash; along National Highway 37, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We got a tip-off that gold smuggled from Myanmar would be taken along the national highway and, accordingly, we laid a trap,&rdquo; N. Meiraba, Superintendent of Customs Division said. The seizure was made at Yurembam.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At 6 a.m., one jeep came along and, on checking it, we found the gold bars concealed in it,&rdquo; the official said.<\/p>\n<p>He said two persons &mdash; Mohammad Yakub and Mohammad Nizamuddin, both from Manipur &mdash; have been arrested in this connection.<\/p>\n<p>Meiraba said both are being questioned to establish where they were taking the bars and to trace the kingpin.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmarese gold, which is comparatively cheaper, has heavy demand in many states.<\/p>\n<p>Despite seizures and arrests, there have been increasing instances of smuggling of gold bars by road and by air.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15434,4],"tags":[2733,15447],"class_list":["post-315766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ifp","category-news","tag-ifp","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315767,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315766\/revisions\/315767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}