BSF foils Pakistan smugglers attempt, lodges complaint with Pak authorities

September 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - Smugglers active along the porous Indo-Nepal border are now using children, as 'carriers' to smuggle goods like sugar and tobacco. Hundreds of children, in the age group of six to years, are being hired by the mafia of smugglers to carry out this illegal trade along the Sunauli check point of Uttar Pradesh.

August 21st, 2009 FEROZEPUR - Border Security Force (BSF) personnel guarding the international border with Pakistan seized two kilograms of heroin from smugglers near India-Pakistan border. The drug runners were trying to smuggle the narcotic substance into India.his was disclosed by Rajesh Gupta, Deputy Inspector General, Border Security Force (BSF) Ferozepur on Thursday.

August 21st, 2009 RAWALPINDI - Pakistani police have booked three men for posing as journalists and using the names of a private TV channel and a newspaper to blackmail residents of this garrison town adjacent to the federal capital Islamabad. Quoting police sources, Online news agency said the cases were registered on the complaint of Kaneez Fatima, a resident of the Mohra Faqiraan Damiyal neighbourhood, who said that a man named Jaffar Shah had been extorting money from drug smugglers, mini cinema runners and other businessmen by posing as the crime reporter of a private TV channel.

August 17th, 2009 JALANDHAR - The Border Security Force (BSF) on Monday seized six kilograms of heroin from the agricultural fields in a Punjab village near Amritsar during a combing operation of the area near the India-Pakistan border. BSF officials said that six packets, weighing a kilogram each, were found from an agricultural field.

August 6th, 2009 Jabbi LoC Mandi Sector (Poonch, J and K), - The Indian Army foiled an attempt by five militants to cross the Line of Control (LoC) from the Jabbi post in the Mandi sector of Poonch district on Thursday. The army noticed the movement of five infiltrators and alerted the post commander.

July 1st, 2009 ABOHAR - Pakistan, which was able to divide the Hindus and Sikhs in Punjab in the early eighties, hopes to recreate the situation if one has to believe the Punjabi Durbar programme broadcast recently. Unmindful of the fact that the Government in Punjab is a coalition of the Akali Dal with the Bharatiya Janata Party, the programme has been stating that the Sikh community has not been given its due by 'Hindu dominated government'.

May 20th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh police have busted an inter-state racket of idol smugglers after recovering 19 antique idols worth Rs.10 crore (one million) stolen from Bihar's Bodhgaya temple. Three people have been arrested from a town in Chandauli district and police said they were going to Varanasi to sell the stolen idols to a person there.

April 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Wednesday said it would examine a complaint against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for allegedly violating the model code of conduct. Mahesh Jethmalani, a noted lawyer and the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) candidate from Mumbai North Central, alleged in his complaint that the prime minister tried to bribe the Muslim community with his comments that the poor among the minorities have the first right over the country's resources.

March 23rd, 2009 POONCH - Police have seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch District. Four AK-47 rifles, two Pakistani cylinders filled with guns, 15 grenades, two Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) fitted in transistors and communication paraphernalia was recovered by the police.

March 5th, 2009 AMRITSAR - The Border Security Force (BSF) early Wednesday foiled an attempt by Pakistani intruders to smuggle heroin into India, killing one of them in a gunbattle and arresting another near the international border in Punjab, an official said. While one smuggler managed to escape, another was killed in the gunbattle at Mahwa post near Attari in the Amritsar sector, BSF's Punjab Frontier Deputy Inspector General Jagir Singh told IANS.

March 4th, 2009 AMRITSAR - The Border Security Force (BSF) early Wednesday foiled an attempt by Pakistani intruders to smuggle heroin into India, killing one of them in a gunbattle in the Amritsar sector of the international border, an official said. While two smugglers managed to escape, one was killed in the gunbattle at Mahwa post near Attari and was being identified, BSF's Punjab Frontier Deputy Inspector General Jagir Singh told IANS.

January 20th, 2009 AGARTALA - The Tripura government Wednesday ordered a magisterial probe into an incident of firing by the Border Security Force (BSF) in which two people were killed and five wounded. 'Our police chief has already spoken to the BSF authorities and conveyed the state government's view that security forces must not open fire unless the situation gets out of hand,' Chief Minister Manik Sarkar told reporters.

January 18th, 2009 AGARTALA - At least two civilians were killed and five other people, including a para-military trooper, were injured when Border Security Force (BSF) personnel opened fire after a clash with a mob in Tripura Monday, the police said. The violence erupted at Boxanagar village, 60 km west of Tripura capital Agartala, when BSF troopers went to the village bordering Bangladesh to catch 'ganja' (hemp) smugglers.

January 5th, 2009 RANCHI - Fans of Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni Tuesday formally lodged a police complaint against unidentified people after his family recieved an extortion letter. 'We have lodged an FIR (first information report) against unknown persons threatening Dhoni's family and seeking Rs.5 million in extortion,' Jitendra Singh, president of the Dhoni Fan Club here, told IANS.

January 4th, 2009 ABOHAR - The Border Security Force (BSF) recovered nearly 14 kg of heroin worth millions of rupees in the international market from the Abohar sector of the India-Pakistan border Monday. The drug consignment was concealed in packets, BSF officials said.