Five smugglers held with over 3 kg heroin, arms

The Border Security Force (BSF) today nabbed five smugglers who had come to retrieve contraband, pistol, ammunition and mobile phone in the border belt of Amritsar in the past 24 hours.

A spokesman for the BSF said that alert troops made the seizure in separate instances.

He said following the movement of drones, the BSF jawans started a search operation in the Bhaini Rajputa village and recovered three packets containing 1.680 kg of heroin.

Similarly, the BSF arrested three suspicious elements in the same area and seized two packets containing a pistol, two magazines and 63 live cartridges apart from four mobile phones from them. All the suspects, identified as Manpreet Singh, Sahil Singh and Lovepreet Singh, were from Bhaini Dilawar village. Further probe in the case was on, he said and added that their backward and forward linkages were being looked into.

In another incident, the BSF nabbed two drug peddlers – Jaspal Singh and Sukhchain Singh of Dande and Attari village, respectively —- from Rorawala Kalan village and confiscated three packets containing 1.750 kg of heroin from them. It also impounded the bike they were travelling on and Rs 2,020 besides two mobile phones from them. The accused belonged to Dande and Attari villages. They were handed over to the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) for further investigations.