​ A CBI officer and two retired officers of customs attempted to loot gold in West Bengal

A Central Intelligence Bureau officer and two retired officers of the Customs are among the seven people to be arrested for trying to loot gold from a courier employee at Howrah station in West Bengal.

The accused IB officer and two retired Customs officers tried to loot around five kg gold from the employee while he was getting off the Kamrup Express at the Howrah Station this morning, a senior officer of Howrah Police Commissionerate told a news agency.

Acting on a tip-off, a team of police personnel from Howrah Police reached the spot at the same time when the IB officer and his associates told them that a "raid was on and they would take the person and the gold with them," he said.

"On finding that the officers' statements were discrepant our officers brought them here and on questioning they admitted their crime," the officer said.

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