Three people were arrested with 73 silver bricks in Jharkhand’s Giridih district, police said today.
While 73 silver bricks were seized in Jharkhand’s Giridih by the police and three people were arrested, the suspected mastermind managed to flee.
Acting on a tip-off, the silver bricks, weighing 75 kg, were seized from a car on Giridih-Dumri route within the Muffasil station house area, they said.
The bricks are estimated to be worth ₹ 35 lakh, senior police official Anil Kumar Singh said.
The suspected mastermind, Rajesh Gupta, managed to hoodwink the police and escape. Three of his accomplices, identified as Arvind Kumar Pandey, Govind Soni and Brahmadev Prasad, were arrested, the officer said.
Further investigations are underway, he said.
