Kupwara (Jammu and Kashmir): The security forces foiled an infiltration bid in the Tangdhar sector of North Kashmir's Kupwara district and has recovered arms, ammunition and drugs left behind by the infiltrators, the Jammu and Kashmir police informed on Friday. According to the police, 7 Rashtriya Rifles and 87 battalion of Border Security Force (BSF) were part of the operation along with the police.
Kashmir Zone Police took to Twitter to inform about the infiltration bid. "Kupwara Police along with 7RR and 87Bn BSF foiled infiltration bid at Tangdhar area. Recovered arms, ammunitions and drugs left behind by the infiltrators," Kashmir Zone Police tweeted.
The arms and ammunition recovered include one AK-47, one pistol and two grenades. As many as six packets of Heroin drug with a market value of around Rs 30 crores were also recovered, it said. Meanwhile, one unidentified terrorist was killed by security forces in an encounter that broke out in the Hanjipora area of Shopian in Jammu and Kashmir earlier in the day.
Kashmir Zone Police said that the operation is still in progress.
On June 3, the Border Security Force (BSF) recovered 56 kg heroin worth Rs 300 crore at the India-Pakistan International Border in Rajasthan's Bikaner district. The drug was seized by Rajasthan Frontier Headquarters of BSF, while they were being smuggled through plastic pipes. Meanwhile, the Narcotics Control Bureau has arrested the main accused in the heroin smuggling case.
According to Ugamdan Charan, the zonal director of Jodhpur NCB, the accused revealed during interrogation that Lahore's notorious smuggler Malik Choudhary was associated with this consignment, which was being smuggled into India. On the basis of information received from three people of Sriganganagar area, arrested in connection with the case, it was revealed that Jasvir Singh alias Momi, a resident of Hoshiarpur Punjab, had been in touch with smugglers from Pakistan and that it was at his behest, the heroin was being delivered to India. But soon after the incident happened, Jasvir Singh had fled from his village along with his family.
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(Agencies input)
