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Chandigarh, Oct 26 (IANS) Cracking down on cross-border smuggling of arms and narcotics, the Border Security Force (BSF) has seized pistols, drones and heroin in separate incidents along the India-Pakistan border in Punjab’s Firozpur and Amritsar.
On Sunday, BSF troops recovered a packet of heroin weighing 553 grams from an agricultural field near village Bhaini Rajputana, Amritsar.
On Saturday, acting on a tip-off by its intelligence wing, BSF personnel on duty recovered a DJI AIR 3S drone near Daoke village in Amritsar.
BSF troops neutralized a DJI Mavic 3 Classic drone from a field near Kahangarh village in Amritsar and recovered the drone carrying a pistol with a magazine, an official statement said.
In another operation, BSF troops recovered a pistol, a magazine and two live cartridges from a field near Bahadurke village on the Firozpur border.
The statement said that these remarkable operations by the alert BSF troops are a symbol of their determined action in destroying the nefarious efforts of Pakistani smugglers across the border.
The BSF on Wednesday caught a minor boy with 11 gold biscuits along the India-Bangladesh Border (IBB) in North 24-Parganas, West Bengal.
According to an official, the weight of the seized gold was 1,286.17 grams, which is worth around Rs 1.64 crore.
During interrogation, the boy told that he had been sent by his mother to deliver the gold. The boy has been handed over to the concerned authorities along with the gold for further legal process.
Earlier this month, the BSF seized a gold brick weighing 579 grams from North 24 Parganas in West Bengal and arrested a person in possession of the precious metal. The price of gold was Rs 76.50 lakh. To extract information related to the gold smuggling racket in the area, the suspected smuggler was interrogated and handed over to the concerned department.
–IANS
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