BSF and NCB seize arms, IED components, and heroin at Punjab borders

The BSF troops today seized arms, ammunition, explosives, hand grenades with accessories, and a huge amount of narcotics in the border area of Amritsar. Based on precise information from the BSF intelligence wing, the troops conducted a thorough search operation in the suspected area and successfully seized two large packets from a field near Bhallarwal village in Amritsar district.

Upon opening the packets, two pistols along with four magazines, 50 live rounds, two hand grenades with accessories, explosive material with IED components, a remote device, two electric detonators, and eight small packets containing 7.7 kg of heroin were seized.

In another operation, the BSF troops recovered a Pakistani drone and two heroin consignments from the border belt of Amritsar and Gurdaspur. A search operation conducted by the BSF, based on information provided by a local resident, resulted in the recovery of one packet of suspected heroin (gross weight: 500 g) at 10.20 am from a cauliflower field adjacent to Gola Dola village in Gurdaspur district.

Similarly, another packet of suspected heroin (gross weight: 558 g) was recovered jointly by the BSF and Punjab Police at 11.40 am today from a harvested field adjacent to Modhe village in Amritsar.

In yet another search operation, the BSF recovered a drone at 1.30 pm today. The drone was found hanging on a tree adjacent to Sarangdev village in Amritsar and was presumed to have crashed due to technical interference by the technical countermeasures deployed on the border.

A day before, in a joint operation, the NCB and BSF carried out a raid at a suspected house in Ranian border village and arrested a smuggler with two packets of heroin (gross weight: 804 g) hidden under a brick dump in the courtyard of his house. A keypad mobile phone was also recovered from his possession. The apprehended smuggler is a resident of Ranian village in Amritsar. Further questioning is being carried out to find his illicit linkages.