Rajasthan: BSF seizes drugs worth Rs 17 cr from Indo-Pak Border; 4 arrested
Villagers in the Khyaliwali area near the Indo-Pak border nabbed two suspected persons early Tuesday morning and informed the BSF
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Jaipur, June 8: The Border Security Force (BSF), in joint action with the CID, said it apprehended four persons and seized over 3.6 kilogram of narcotics substance dropped by a Pakistani drone in the Sri Ganganagar district of Rajasthan.
Villagers in the Khyaliwali area near the Indo-Pak border nabbed two suspected persons early Tuesday morning and informed the BSF, an official of the force said.
On their information, two more persons were nabbed while they were escaping from a car, he said. International Market worth of heroin is Rs 17 crore.
The BSF personnel conducted a search operation & recovered four packets containing suspected heroin and weighing 3.6 kg. The accused, hailing from Punjab, had come to take delivery of the narcotics dropped by a drone, the official said.
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The accused were identified as Nirmal Singh, Ravindra Singh, Jaspreet and Lovepreet, and are being interrogated, he said. Also, a team of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has also arrived for investigation.