Bhubaneswar, Jan. 29 -- The officers of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) in Delhi have thwarted attempts to smuggle gold and silver from Hong Kong. The DRI officials intercepted seven consignments of Electric Current/Potential Meters declared as Current Guiaor Machine, which had arrived from Hong Kong at the Foreign Post Office (FPO), New Delhi.

The electric meters were found to be functional with genuine populated circuit boards. How It Was Busted? After preliminary examination, the electric meters appeared to be unusually heavy.

As per a PIB report, the outer covers of these 56 electric meters were painted black. On scratching the black paint of these covers, white-colour metal was noticed, similar to steel. However, anal...