A group of three Pakistani intruders were gunned down by the alert jawans of the Border Security Force in the wee hours of Sunday while they were attempting to smuggle a huge consignment of narcotics along the International border in Samba sector of Jammu frontier.
The BSF said around 36 kgs of narcotics( possibly heroin) worth 180 crores in the International market was recovered during the operation. According to BSF the intruders were trying to smuggle narcotics through the border fencing using a plastic pipe.
This was the fourth narcotic smuggling bid foiled by the BSF troops along the border this year, while a total of nine Pakistani intruders were eliminated in various such attempts in the past one year.
Senior BSF officers of the Jammu frontier along with the Inspector General of Border Security Force (BSF), Jammu frontier, D K Boora visited the border area and interacted with the local team of BSF jawans and officers.
Addressing media persons IG BSF DK Boora said, “We had a very good operation the previous night when the alert troops eliminated a narcotic smuggling attempt from Pakistan.
The smugglers tried to take advantage of the darkness and foggy conditions to smuggle the huge quantity of narcotics into this side".
Patting back of the BSF jawans IG BSF DK Boora said over the past one year, not a single attempt from Pakistan had gone unnoticed and every single attempt was successfully foiled by the border guards.“It is a big achievement for the BSF…We have been getting specific inputs about possible attempts of narcotic smuggling over the past 10 days,” he said, adding the BSF remains on high alert and never lowers its guard.
Asked whether the slain smugglers were also affiliated with any terrorist organisation, he said it is a matter of investigation.“The operation is on and so is the investigation. We will share further detail when we reach some conclusion,” he said.