2.5kg heroin seized from field near IndoPak border
JOINT OPERATION The contraband was found concealed in two drawbars of a tractor
A joint team of the 17 Battalion of the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) of the Punjab Police seized around 2.5kg heroin from a field near the security fence on the India-Pakistan border here on Tuesday.
The contraband was concealed in a tractor’s two drawbars. The drawbar is mounted or located on the vehicle and is used to accept the coupling of the load.
RS Kataria, deputy inspector general (DIG) of BSF said, “A search operation was launched by the troops of the Border Security Force and the Narcotics Control Bureau in the Rear Kakkar border outpost area on a tip-off. At about 7 pm, the search party recovered two tractor drawbars filled with contraband (approximately 2.4 kg) suspected to be heroin in a field across the fencing line.”
Kataria, however, didn’t disclose the name of the farmer from whose field the contraband was recovered.
On July 1, the same battalion of the BSF had recovered over 3kg heroin, concealed in three tractor drawbars, in a field across the barbed fence.
DIG (border range), JS Oberoi, said as the paddy season was on and farmers are allowed to cross the fencing line to cultivate their fields across the fence.
Pakistani smugglers are using some farmers to smuggle heroin into India through the tractor drawbars .
Earlier, a senior Border Security Force official had said, “This is a new modus operandi adopted by Pakistan smugglers to smuggle heroin to India.”
“The Indian farmers, who have links with Pakistani smugglers, bury their tractor drawbars into the soil and attach the drawbars concealed by Pakistani smugglers filled with heroin to deceive the Border Security Force,” he had said.