Drone with 5. 60 kg heroin seized along indo-pak border

CHANDIGARH, DEC 2: Punjab Police on Friday foiled a major drug smuggling bid by Pakistan-based smugglers with the recovery of five packets of heroin, weighing 5.60 kg, along with a

hexacopter drone, which was used to drop the consignment, during a search operation at the border area of Khemkaran in Tarn Taran. The operation was carried out with the support of the

Border Security Force (BSF), a statement by the government said. Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav said after noticing the drone movement in the India-Pakistan border on the

intervening night of Thursday and Friday, police teams from Tarn Taran district shared the pin-pointed inputs with the BSF and jointly conducted a search operation in the area, which was

just 2 km away from the border. “During the search, a blue and black coloured hexacopter drone (model E616S) along with black tape-wrapped five packets of heroin weighing 5.60 kg was found

lying in the agricultural land of a local resident,” he said, adding the preliminary investigations suggest this drone was found to be having modern technology and it could lift a good

amount of weight. This is the third such drone recovered by the Tarn Taran Police in less than a week.