The Border Security Force troops in collaboration with Punjab Police apprehended three drug smugglers on Tuesday and recovered two packets of heroin weighing 260 grams and 255 grams in Punjab's Tarn Taran district, said BSF in a statement.
"ASI Mahendra Singh (55) years old, a BSF soldier, resident of Uttarakhand's Garwal posted at STC Sakugara under 195 battalion, was declared dead after suffering from chest pain while he was on election duty at a booth in Birbhum district," the security forces said.
Two China-made drones and around 560 grams of suspected heroin were seized near the border areas in Punjab's Amritsar on Monday, the Border Security Force (BSF) said.
The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) official deployed at the Delhi Airport arrested a woman, who was found roaming at Delhi Airport allegedly wearing a CISF uniform, pretending to be a CISF official on Thursday.
The Border Security Force handed over a Pakistani national who inadvertently crossed over the India-Pakistan border near Punjab's Amritsar, to the Pakistan Rangers, the BSF said on Saturday.
While interacting with the media on Saturday, he said, "Operation against the Naxals will continue. Yesterday 12 Naxals were killed today also one Naxalite was killed in the Dhamtari district. This will continue in the future, and we will strongly fight against Naxalism."
An exchange of fire broke out on Saturday between naxals and security forces in the border areas of Dhamtari and Gariaband in which one naxal died on the spot and three to four naxals were injured, Naxal in-charge SDOP RK Mishra said.