Express News Service
CHANDIGARH: In a joint operation, the Border Security Force and Punjab Police on Saturday seized 40kg of heroin, along the Indo-Pakistan border, which is worth Rs 200 crore in the international market.
Sources said that the seizure of the contraband was made at the Panj Grayan border on the Indo-Pak border as the Pakistani smugglers were pushing in the drugs wrapped in plastic packets into the Indian territory through a PVC pipe inserted through the barbed wire fence on the border. A long plastic pipe was alsoseized.
The sleuths of the 73 the battalion of the BSF opened fire as they noticed some suspicious movement around 2.30 AM across the barbed wire fence and ahead of the zero line on the intentional border.
A BSF official said, “During intervening night of Friday and Saturday at the border pillar 57/2 on Indo-Pak intentional border, a long PVC pipe was put and the smugglers tried to push the heroin through the pipe into the Indian side. The BSF personnel noticed movement and fired more than sixty rounds during which the smugglers ran off taking advantage of the dark. Then during the search forty kg heroin was seized.”
Confirming the seizure IGP (Border Range) SPS Parmar said, “A joint operation with the BSF was carried out as we had got the information about the drug consignment was to be smuggled from across the border. We are keeping a tight vigil along the border.”