BSF stops drug smugglers on India-Pak border

BSF soldiers challenged the smugglers and fired warning shots before they fled into the darkness, leaving behind their consignment of 54 packets of heroin weighing around 56 kgs in Bikaner.

Bikaner: The Border Security Force on Wednesday night foiled the smuggling of drugs across the India-Pakistan border in Rajasthan.

Two drug smugglers from Pakistan were trying to take advantage of the darkness to hand over a consignment of drugs to the waiting Indian smugglers.

BSF soldiers challenged the smugglers and fired warning shots before they fled into the darkness, leaving behind their consignment of 54 packets of heroin weighing around 56 kgs in Bikaner.

DIG Pushpendra Singh Rathod of BSF's Bikaner Sector Headquarters said that 54 packets of heroin have been seized and only after weighing them the correct assessment will be done.

At the same time, the officials of the Narcotics Control Bureau have been informed and further action will be taken after the team arrives from Jodhpur.

Rathod said that Pakistani smugglers were only 150 meters away from the zero-line of the Indo-Pak border. After being challenged by the alert BSF team, Pakistani smugglers ran off to their territory.

At the same time, Indian smugglers, who were waiting for the handover, escaped under the cover of darkness. The BSF has also traced the footprints of Indian smugglers for about 12 to 15 kilometres.