Over 7 kg heroin seized, five held

The Border Security Force (BSF) has arrested five smugglers and recovered a quadcopter drone along with 7.35 kg of contraband in separate incidents in the past 24 hours.

A BSF spokesman said that on Wednesday evening, acting on an intelligence input, BSF jawans in a joint operation with the special cell of the Amritsar rural police arrested a drug peddler and recovered three packets containing 1.43 kg of heroin, apart from a mobile phone from him. The accused was a resident of Ballarwal village.

Similarly, the troops conducted a search operation resulting in the recovery of a quadcopter containing a large packet weighing around 3.140 kg of heroin from a paddy field ahead of the border fence near Khanwa village in Amritsar.

In another incident, while tracking the movement of a drone, BSF jawans confiscated a narcotic packet weighing around 578gm from near Mahawa village.

In another operation, it arrested three smugglers with a packet having around 550gm of heroin from Atalgarh village.

Earlier, the BSF had confiscated three packets of heroin having 1.658 kg of heroin from Pala Megha village in Ferozepur last night in an intelligence based operation.

Besides, in Khemkaran (Tarn Taran), BSF troops arrested a suspected smuggler, who was later handed over to Punjab Police for further investigation.