Police sources said, security forces had specific information of huge amount of illegal storage of cough syrup meant for smuggling and currencies in the house of one Nirmal Shil in West Para village of Gandhigram.
“Based on the information, a joint contingent of BSF, Customs and police raided the house of Nirmal Shil on Sunday evening and recovered the currency notes and banned cough syrup bottles,” said B S Rawat, DIG-BSF.
Feeling the presence of security forces the smuggler Nirmal along with two of his accomplice brothers had, however, escaped from the spot.
During the search operation security forces recovered a total amount of Indian currency of Rs 59.6 lakh and Bangladeshi currencies of 2.39 lakh (Taka) from the house of Nirmal.
Along with the notes security forces also seized 449 bottles of contraband cough syrup Phensidyl and Recodex.
Police added money recovered was a part of the consignment of cough syrup that had already been smuggled across the border.
Meanwhile, a massive manhunt has also been initiated to nab the main accused Nirmal Shil and his two brothers.
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