DRI Seizes 5.8 kg Gold from Car Cavity at Visakhapatnam

The correct answer is the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence. DRI, which functions under the Ministry of Finance, is the central agency that gathers intelligence on smuggling and acts on it, and it carried out this interception at Visakhapatnam after chasing a car travelling from Kolkata towards Hyderabad. The gold, weighing 5,832.90 grams and of 24-carat purity, was valued at about Rs 8.98 crore and was seized under the Customs Act, 1962. The Central Bureau of Investigation in option A investigates corruption and serious crime and does not handle customs seizures. The Narcotics Control Bureau in option C deals with narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, not bullion smuggling. The Enforcement Directorate in option D works on foreign exchange and money laundering cases, so it is not the agency that made this recovery either.

The correct answer is a cavity below the leg space of the front passenger seat. The car revealed nothing on a first inspection, and only a long, systematic rummaging of the interior brought to light a space that had been specially fabricated beneath the leg room of the seat beside the driver. Three packets of 24-carat gold weighing 5,832.90 grams together were drawn out of that hollow. Option A is wrong because the gold was not in the spare wheel, and option C is wrong because the fuel tank was not the hiding place in this case. Option D names the dashboard, which again is not where the packets were found. In the comparable Palwal case the cavities were cut into the chassis of two vehicles rather than under a seat, which shows that carriers vary the location of such hollows.

The correct answer is the India-Bangladesh border. The two occupants of the car admitted in their statements that the gold had entered India over the Indo-Bangladesh border and was being taken to Hyderabad, which matches the Kolkata starting point of the journey. Option B names Myanmar, and that is the trap in this question: Myanmar was the country indicated by early intelligence in a different case, the recovery of more than 15 kg of gold worth over Rs 23 crore near the Palwal toll plaza on 18 and 19 September 2026, not in the Visakhapatnam seizure. Option A, the India-Nepal border, and option D, the India-Bhutan border, do not figure in either case. The gold recovered at Visakhapatnam was seized under the Customs Act, 1962.