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BSF foils Pak’s smuggling bid


Date:- 21 Sep 2020


Seizes 62 kg heroin I miscreants flee after firing in Arnia

Alert Border Security Force (BSF) personnel foiled Pakistan’s major attempt to smuggle arms and narcotics into the Indian territory in the Arnia area of the RS Pura sector of the Jammu division late on the night of September 19.

 

“A consignment containing 62 packets of narcotics (suspected heroin) weighing 1 kg each, two Chinese pistols, three magazines and 100 rounds of 9 mm ammunition was recovered near the IB on the Indian side. The material was concealed in plastic bags tied to a rope and a PVC pipe,” NS Jamwal, Inspector General (IG), BSF, Jammu Frontier, said.

The IG said, “Acting on a specific input, the vigilant troops of BOPs (Border Out Posts) Budhwar and Bullechak observed suspicious movement of three-four persons on Pakistan near the IB around 2 am and challenged them after two to three of them came close to the border fence to sneak into this side. They fired at the BSF troops, who immediately retaliated in self-defence.”

The miscreants, however, took advantage of the darkness and thick foliage and managed to flee from the place.

The IG said it was for the first time that the anti-national elements used a PVC pipe to hide the narcotics to facilitate their smuggling into this side.

The smuggling bid has been foiled close on the heels of the recovery of drone-dropped arms and ammunition from across the Line of Control in Rajouri district on Friday. Security forces had also arrested three Lashkar-e-Taiba militants in Rajouri after they picked the arms consignment and Rs 1 lakh.

 

On June 20, security forces had shot down an arms-laden Pakistani drone at Rathua in Kathua district’s Hiranagar sector. The BSF authorities had also detected a trans-border tunnel in the Jammu’s division’s Samba sector last month.

Courtesy : Daily Tribune:  20thSeptember, 2020