Border Security Force (BSF) on Tuesday apprehended two Bangladeshi smugglers with 14 fish-pin balls along the Indo-Bangladeshi border worth Rs 1.40 Lakhs.
According to the police, based on secret information, a team of Karimganj district police led by Superintendent of Police Partha Protim Das launched an operation and intercepted a truck bearing registration number TR-02D-1691 at Karimganj bypass road.
Two birds belonging to an exotic species were rescued from smugglers in a search operation carried out by the Border Security Force (BSF), said officials on Thursday.
The hexacopter drone was shot down and recovered alongwith contraband items by the alert BSF troops at about 12.55 am from the area near Metla village in the Gurdaspur district.
In a major breakthrough in its drive against drugs, District Police Udhampur has arrested two narcotics smugglers and recovered a consignment of about 100 Kg of Poppy Straw (Bhukki) at Jakhani Check Naka on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in the jurisdiction of Police Station (PS) Udhampur.
In a major crackdown on gangsters, working in tandem with terrorist groups and drug smugglers based in foreign countries including Pakistan and Canada, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted raids at 76 locations across 8 states on Tuesday, an official statement said.
Foiling a smuggling attempt, the Border Security Force (BSF) troops from Border Outpost Betai, 84 Battalion under South Bengal Frontier, rescued rare species of birds being smuggled from Bangladesh to India.