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Heroin, pistol packets airdropped by drone seized in Punjab

Darpan News Desk IANS, 10 Feb, 2023 12:35 PM
  • Heroin, pistol packets airdropped by drone seized in Punjab

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Chandigarh, Feb 10 (IANS) Punjab Police in a joint operation with the Border Security Force (BSF) recovered a parcel containing three packets of heroin, weighing 3 kg, and 0.30 bore pistol along with magazine and five cartridges from the border area in Tarn Taran.

The consignment was airdropped by Pakistan-based smugglers using a drone from across the border.

Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav said on information provided by a civilian on hearing drone movement near Indo-Pak border in the Khemkaran area on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, police teams immediately shared the pin-pointed inputs with the BSF and jointly launched a combing operation in the area, which was within the radius of 1 km from the Indo-Pak border.

"On deep checking of the surrounding fields, police and BSF teams have recovered the consignment of 3 kg heroin and a pistol along with ammunition from the area of Mianwal," he said.

The development came a day after the police arrested a juvenile and recovered 15 packets of heroin, weighing 15 kg, and Rs 8.40 lakh drug money from his possession in Amritsar.

This consignment was also airdropped by Pakistan-based smugglers using a drone and the accused was going to deliver after retrieving the parcel from the border area of Kakkar village in Amritsar.

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