BSF seize Rs 65 crore heroin on Indo-Pak border

NEW DELHI: Heroine worth Rs 65 crore along with arms and ammunition were on Thursday seized by BSF personnel on the Indo-Pakistan border in Punjab. The consignment that had 13 packets of heroine, one .30 bore pistol, two magazines and 24 rounds was seized near border outpost Mullakot, Amritsar sector.

Sources said BSF troops were on high alert as inputs were received regarding threat of smuggling from the area of the particular border outpost.

Late on Wednesday, BSF troops deployed in the area observed suspicious movement on both sides of border fence.

The smugglers had reached close to fence and tried to deliver and receive contraband items across fence. The troops immediately challenged them but were fired upon. As BSF troops returned fire smugglers fled the scene taking cover of darkness and standing wheat crop. During search of the area on Thursday morning the arms and contraband were recovered.

Sources said, keeping in view the vulnerability of border to smuggling in the run up to Lok Sabha elections, BSF Punjab frontier IG Ajay Kumar Tomar had issued operational guidelines to further strengthen border domination so as to effectively check the menace of narcotics smuggling and activities of anti national elements on Punjab border with Pakistan.