Kadapa police seize 1.5 kgs of gold being transported without bills

TIRUPATI: Kadapa police seized 1.5 kgs of gold being transported without any valid invoices by a local trader on Saturday.

According to Kadapa I town CI C Bhaskar Reddy, the local police conducting vehicular checks at the Gandhi statue circle in the city on Saturday, came across a person moving around suspiciously on a two-wheeler.

When police searched his bag, they found gold bars in different forms weighing about 1.56 kgs.

The trader, who identified himself as Deshmukh Bharat Raja Rao, told the police that he had no bills to show them as he was involved in blackmarketing gold.

Kadapa I town police registered a case, seized the gold and reported the matter to the Income tax regional office in Tirupati for further action.