Dynamite News Punjab: Intruding drone and heroine recovered by BSF on Amritsar Border
Acting promptly on intelligence inputs, BSF seized a drone and a packet of heroine on Amritsar Border. Read full detail on Dynamite News:
Amritsar: Border Security Force (BSF) Punjab on Monday successfully neutralized an intruding drone and recovered a heroin packet on the Amritsar border, reports Dynamite News correspondent.
The BSF continues to foil the cross-border smuggling attempts by Pakistan-based smugglers trying to exploit the foggy season along the Punjab border by sending drones.
Intelligence input
A BSF intelligence-based search operation culminated at about 07:10 am with the recovery of one packet of suspected heroin (Gross weight- 580 grams) from a farming field adjacent to the village Ballaharwal of district Amritsar. The narcotics packet was wrapped in yellow colour adhesive tape with a nylon loop attached to it.
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Diligent efforts
Reliable information and diligent efforts of BSF troops effectively thwarted a few more attempts of smuggling of narcotics consignment from across the border.
Earlier on Friday, In a joint operation, the Border Security Force (BSF) and Punjab Police recovered heroin packets from border areas in Tarn Taran and Gurdaspur districts.
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Acting on reliable intelligence from the BSF, the first recovery took place around 12:30 PM near Dal village in Tarn Taran. "An intelligence-based joint search of BSF with Punjab Police culminated at about 12:30 PM with the recovery of one packet of suspected heroin (gross weight: 562 grams) from a farming field adjacent to village Dal in district Tarn Taran," the BSF stated earlier.
Dec 8 recovery
On December 8, the BSF, in coordination with Punjab Police seized two Heroin packets, weiging apprx 1 kg near Tarn Taran and Gurdaspur borders. At about 12:30 pm, a heroin packet wrapped in yellow tape with a copper wire loop attached, was recovered from a field on Tarn Taran border.
Whereas, in the evening, one more heroin packet, similarly wrapped and having a nylon loop and illuminating sticks attached, was recovered on Gurdaspur border.