Drone with heroin seized along India-Pak border

Story by  ATV | Posted by  Nakul Shivani • 1 Years ago
Punjab Police personnel with the drone recovered from India-Pak border
Punjab Police personnel with the drone recovered from India-Pak border

 

Chandigarh

Punjab Police on Friday foiled a major drug smuggling bid by Pakistan-based smugglers with the recovery of five packets of heroin, weighing 5.60 kg.

Also recovered was a hexacopter drone, which was used to drop the consignment

The recoveries were made during a search operation at border area of Khemkaran in Tarn Taran.

Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav said after noticing the drone movement in India-Pakistan border on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, police teams from Tarn Taran district shared the pin-pointed inputs with the BSF and jointly conducted a search operation in the area, which was just 2 km away from the border.

"During the search, a blue and black coloured hexacopter drone (model E616S) along with black tape-wrapped five packets of heroin weighing 5.60 kg was found lying in the agricultural land of a local resident," he said.

This is the third such drone recovered by the Tarn Taran Police in less than a week.

Earlier, a hexacopter drone and a tape-wrapped package containing six packets of heroin, weighing 6.68 kg, was recovered in the jurisdiction of border outpost Harbhajan in Khem Karan on Tuesday.

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On the next day, a broken quadcopter drone was recovered from the area of Van Tara Singh village in Khalra.