Two persons were arrested after a drone was caught at the Indo-Pak border in Rajasthan's Sri Ganganagar on Thursday midnight. BSF seized around 6.150 Kg of Heroin, while 3 other persons managed to abscond.
"Brave CT Ram Pratap Tetarwal @BSF_SouthBengal got severe injuries on the line of duty while fighting with smugglers in the bordering area of Distt Nadia(WB)," the BSF-SouthBengal tweeted.
Foiling smuggling bid, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials on Tuesday arrested two passengers from Dubai at the Mumbai airport and recovered gold worth Rs 4.54 crore.
In a mega crackdown on drug mafia, Punjab Police arrested 258 drug smugglers and seized over 100 kilograms narcotics worth Rs 20.5 lakh in a week. Officials said they also arrested 188 people and recovered 10,269 Chinese Dor (Deadly strings), during the raids conducted last week.
Smugglers who came to take delivery of heroin in a car saw Border Security Forces and opened fire on the spot. BSF also retaliated against the smugglers on the spot. Two smugglers were detained on the spot by the Border Security Force and have been taken in, While one of the smugglers abscon
Three bags drone dropped from Pakistan were recovered, containing 6 suspected heroin packets weighing approximately 6 kg including the packing material. The price of suspected heroin recovered in the international market is 30 crores.
DRI Raipur unit had received a tip off that a huge quantity of foreign cigarettes was being transported in a truck. Acting on the information, surveillance was increased for the suspected truck. The officials stopped the truck near Raipur and searched it.
In a bid to prevent smuggling of drugs, Assam Rifles in a joint operation with the Police apprehended two Myanmarese nationals and recovered heroin worth Rs 63.32 lakh from Aizawl.
Two passengers were held for allegedly smuggling 4.65 kilograms of gold estimated to be worth Rs 2.55 crore by hiding inside their luggage in two separate incidents on Thursday, said officials of Kozhikode Airport.
The radioactive material was detected in a package at Heathrow Airport following a routine screening on December 29. The discovery of the shipment has raised alarm over the possible use of Pakistan as a transit point for smuggling nuclear material.