Manipur Police and security forces carried out multiple operations across the state on Saturday, leading to the arrest of a drug dealer, the detention of an active cadre of the proscribed outfit PREPAK (PRO), and the recovery of a substantial cache of arms and explosives.
According to the BSF release, late last night, following reports of suspected aerial movement, BSF teams conducted a thorough search in agricultural fields near Daoke village, Amritsar.
Superintendent of Police (South Jammu) Ajay Sharma said that the operation began with the arrest of two individuals, from whom an initial recovery of 3 kg and 260 grams of heroin was made.
Acting on specific intelligence developed over a prolonged period, NCB officials tracked the movement of an illicit consignment transported through dense forest routes in Manipur and ferried on small motorboats along the Barak River to evade routine security checks.
Acting on specific intelligence developed over an extended period, NCB teams tracked a heroin consignment moving through dense forest corridors along the Myanmar-Manipur border. To avoid conventional highway surveillance and police checkpoints, traffickers allegedly used small motorboats
BSF officials said that, the first recovery took place last night near the village of Kamal Wala, Ferozepur, where troops recovered a DJI Mavic 3 drone along with a packet of heroin weighing 557 grams from a farming field following a reported drone movement.
Acting on a specific intelligence, an operation was launched on 19 November 25 in North Cachar, leading to the seizure of 186 gm heroin valued at approximately ₹2.5 crore in the illegal market.
The consignment's estimated street value is Rs 19.666 crore. The operation successfully disrupted an inter-state drug trafficking syndicate operating in the North Eastern region.
In a series of successful anti-smuggling operations, the vigilant Border Security Force (BSF) troops foiled multiple cross-border attempts and apprehended 02 smugglers, recovering 02 drones and 08 packets of heroin across different sectors of the Punjab border.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Chandigarh, has secured the conviction of a drug trafficker in the 2021 heroin seizure from the Indo-Pakistan border area, said the agency in a press release.
In a significant operational success, the Border Security Force (BSF) has intercepted several cross-border smuggling attempts over the past 24 hours, leading to substantial recoveries along the Punjab border.
BSF troops recovered an assembled quadcopter in Amritsar and a packet of suspected heroin in Tarn Taran in two separate operations along the Punjab border, highlighting the force's vigilance against cross-border smuggling attempts by narco syndicates.