About 12 kg of seized gold worth Rs five crore was found stolen from the safe locker at the Customs office here today, police said.
Miscreants had broken open the locker and removed the gold, seized from smugglers, especially at the airport here, in recent days and kept in the locker for being produced in court.
According to a complaint lodged with Cantonment Police by the customs, the gold in the form of biscuits was worth about Rs five crore.
Police were investigating how the miscreants gained entry into the customs office.
