A man was arrested on Wednesday in Hyderabad,India for possession of illegal gold. The arrest was made by officials of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI).
The gold is priced at over Rs 66 lakh (about 92,571.14 $ ) and weighs around 1.7 kilograms. The officials said that they acted on a tip-off and arrested the accused.
According to the tip-off, a man was arriving in Hyderabad on a bus with illegal foreign-marked gold. The police are suspecting that gold was being smuggled into the country.