The Border Security Force (BSF) on Friday said it recovered a drone along with one bottle attached (filled with suspected heroin), from the paddy fields in the area falling near Rajatal village in Amritsar district of Punjab.

The recovered drone is a Quadcopter (Model - DJI Mavic 3 Classic, made in China) and the gross weight of the recovered heroin is 0.545 Kg

On Friday, during afternoon hours, on specific input of BSF, search operation was carried out by the BSF and Punjab Police, near the border fence near Rajatal in Amritsar, the BSF said in a statement.

On Tuesday, the BSF along with the Punjab police apprehended a drug smuggler and recovered narcotics.

On September 26, the BSF noticed the intrusion of a suspected drone near Daoke village in Amritsar in the afternoon.

The BSF patrol party and the Punjab police noticed suspected movement of two persons. The suspects, after noticing the troops, tried to escape. However, the troops chased and managed to apprehend one of them.

Further, at about 3.45 PM, on the basis of revelations by the apprehended, two packets of narcotics, suspected to be heroin (gross weight 700 gms, were recovered from the farming fields of Daoke.

The BSF foiled two attempts of smugglers to smuggle narcotics via drone. 

Drones from across the border have acquired a menacing proportion for gunrunning and smuggling of drugs along the bordering States.

The Centre is scouting for anti-drone technologies to counter the drone menace and secure its frontiers along Pakistan.

Besides Punjab, drone sightings have been reported from Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan.

Officials said the drones provide a convenient method to the adversaries to smuggle arms, ammunition and drugs in the bordering States of the country.