Amritsar: Punjab Police and BSF personnel are capturing consignments of drones, heroin and weapons almost every day from the villages of Amritsar district bordering Pakistan. In This row today BSF Vigilant team gun down a drone at Amritsar border village Chaklabaksh and recovered 420 grams heroin.
BSF Officials said that, Upon observing a drone intrusion from Pakistani side into India, BSF troops tracked the drone’s movement, downed it, and searched the likely dropping area, eventually recovering the drone. The drone, a Chinese-made DJI Mavic 3 Classic, was carrying 420 grams of heroin wrapped in a packet. The recovery took place in the village Chaklabaksh, in district Amritsar. Once again, a nefarious attempt from across the border was foiled by vigilant and alert BSF troops.
Earlier, on Saturday as well, BSF recovered a similar China-made drone along with a pistol in Punjab’s Ferozepur district. In a statement, the BSF said, “Based on specific intelligence input, BSF troops launched an extensive search operation that led to the recovery of a Pakistani drone and a pistol from the village of Lakha Singh Wala in Ferozepur district. The recovered drone is a DJI Mavic 3 Classic, and the pistol was wrapped with yellow adhesive tape and was attached to the drone.”
In another operation on June 22, BSF recovered another drone in the Fazilka area. According to the BSF “On 22nd June 2024, during morning hours, based on information of BSF intelligence wing about presence of a drone with narcotics in border area of district Fazilka, BSF troops in collaboration with Punjab Police carried out a search operation in the suspected area. During search, at about 07:35 am, the troops successfully recovered 01 drone along with 01 packet of suspected heroin (Gross weight- 520 Grams) from a farming field of Village – Gahlewala of district Fazilka. The narcotics were wrapped in red colour adhesive tape and a metal ring with an illuminating stick was also found attached to it. The recovered drone is identified as China made DJI Mavic- 3 Classic.”