Agartala, Sept. 21 -- Acting on specific intelligence, the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Customs Preventive Force carried out a successful joint operation late on 20 September, seizing gold worth nearly Rs 1.59 crore in Tripura's Sepahijala district.

According to officials, the operation was launched around 11:15 pm by BSF troops from the N C Nagar Border Outpost under the Sector Headquarters Gokulnagar, in coordination with the Customs Preventive Force, Sonamura. The team recovered 12 gold biscuits weighing approximately 1.39 kilograms from the house of an Indian villager in N C Nagar under Sonamura police station limits.

The seized gold is suspected to have been smuggled across the India-Bangladesh border. Authorities said the m...