BSF foils smuggling attempt at border, two arrested with heroin

Border Security Force (BSF) troops on Wednesday foiled attempts to smuggle heroin across the Indo-Pak border in Amritsar sector, arresting two persons and seizing four packets of the contraband.

According to officials, the intelligence-led first operation was carried out in the wee hours near Modhe village. BSF personnel laid an ambush and intercepted two narcotics smugglers.

“The troops recovered three packets of heroin, weighing 1.7 kg in total, along with a mobile phone from their possession,” a BSF spokesperson said. Both accused, residents of Modhe, were later handed over to the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) for further investigation.

In another incident, the BSF recovered one packet of heroin weighing 560 grams from a farming field near Chakallabaksh village in the morning.