Barely 48 hours after the recovery of 11 HG Arges 84 hand grenades, the Punjab Police on Tuesday recovered an AK-47 rifle and a magazine with 30 live cartridges. The police maintained that the same were evidently a part of the same consignment that was dropped by the Pak drone in BOP Chakri (Dorangala police station) area in Gurdaspur district on Sunday.
The seizure comes amid concerns raised by the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh of fresh spurt of efforts by Pakistan-based militants to disturb the border state’s peace. The Chief Minister had recently also met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in this regard.
Punjab Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta said that an extensive search operation had been launched by the Gurdaspur police in the area where the drone, which was fired at by the police and the BSF, was sighted.
He said that the package, containing the assault rifle, appeared to have been dropped in the wheat fields in the area of village Wazir Chak, 1.5 km from village Salach, Dorangla police station (Gurdaspur).
“The recovered assault Rifle and the magazine with 30 live cartridges had also been attached with a wooden frame and lowered from the drone with a nylon rope like the hand grenades which were recovered from Salach village on Sunday,” he added.