BSF seizes 13-kg heroin, four Pakistani SIM cards

Our Correspondent

Fazilka, September 18

The Border Security Force (BSF) claimed to have seized 13 packets of heroin weighing about 13 kg, worth about Rs 65 crore in the international market, from different locations here today. The BSF has also recovered four Pakistani SIM cards.

Deputy Inspector Generals, BSF, Madhusudan Sharma and RS Kataria while addressing a press conference said here today that on a tip-off officials of 118 Battalion carried out a special search operation. They found 11 packets weighing about 11 kg wrapped in yellow plastic tape buried in paddy fields across the barbed wire fencing near the Dona Raja Deena Nath border outpost (BOP).

The jawans also recovered four Pakistani SIM cards of U-Phone company from the site. Besides this, jawans of 169 Battalion of the BSF recovered two packets of heroin near BOP Jodhawala. No arrest had been made in this regard so far. Sharma and Kataria said, “The neighbouring country is trying to push narcotics into our country but the BSF jawans always thwart their nefarious designs.”