The Border Security Force (BSF) personnel on Saturday found a metal box containing cartridges near a BSF camp in Khavda town of bordering Kutch district.
According to BSF sources, there were approximately 400 live cartridges inside the metal box buried at a place from where Pakistan border is very close.
Confirming the development, Deputy Commandant of BSF Prabhat Sharma said that the BSF personnel received an information through its Intelligence network about a metal box containing ammunition buried in the dry rivulet situated around 500 metres of north of the camp of 150 battalion of BSF.
He, however, said the conditions of the ammunition were very old and rusty and cartridges were look unusable. BSF has given all the details to Kutch police as well as the metal box, now the case would be handled by the local police, he added.
Kutch border along the Pakistan’s Sindh province has been considered sensitive as in the recent past appearances of Pakistan nationals inside Indian Territory recorded.
Besides, the Gujarat district also shares maritime border with the neighbouring country where every now and then abandoned boats are being found. Moreover, Indian fishermen too often harassed by the Pakistan Marine Security Agency and many times they abducted innocent fishermen from Indian border along with their vessels.