BSF recovers 14 kg heroin from Punjab border

September 20th, 2009 FIROZPUR - The Border Security Force (BSF) has seized two kilograms of heroine at DT Mall in Firozpur district on the Indo-Pak border of Punjab. The security personnel in a special search recovered two packets containing one kg of heroin each.

September 1st, 2009 AMRITSAR - Sleuths of Special Operation Cell (SOC) of Punjab have seized on Monday four kilograms of heroin estimated to be worth around rupees 200 million rupees in the international market and also arrested five men. This was disclosed by P K Rai, Senior Superintendent of Police, Special Operation Cell, (SOC), Punjab.

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 18th, 2009 GURDASPUR - Twenty five kilograms of heroin, worth Rs.1.25 billion, was seized by the Border Security Force (BSF) near the India-Pakistan border in this district of Punjab Tuesday. "We have seized 25 kilograms of heroin that is worth Rs.125 crore (Rs.1.25 billion) in the international market, in the wee hours Tuesday," Jagir Singh, Punjab frontier deputy inspector general, told IANS.

August 18th, 2009 GURDASPUR - Border Security Force (BSF) personnel seized 25 kg of heroin near the India-Pakistan border in this district of Punjab Tuesday. "We have seized 25 kilograms of heroin that is worth Rs.125 crore (Rs.

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 15th, 2009 FEROZEPUR - Four suspected Pakistani smugglers were arrested Saturday and a night vision device, some arms and ammunition and two kilograms of heroin was seized from them by Indian border guards in this Punjab frontier district, an official said. "We apprehended four smugglers while they were trying to cross the border.

August 14th, 2009 NAWANSHAHR - Punjab Police claimed to have busted a drug racket with the arrest of three Punjab residents and a non-resident Indian (NRI) here Friday. Police also seized 1.8 kg of heroin from their possession.

July 4th, 2009 FEROZEPUR - Punjab police seized heroin worth millions here on Friday. Two people were arrested with 12 kilogram of heroin in their possession.

June 2nd, 2009 TARAN TARAN - Four packets of heroin worth 200 million rupees seized at the India-Pakistan international border in Taran Taran region of Punjab. Seized by the officials at Khem Karan sector the heroin was buried just off the international India Pakistan frontier.

March 12th, 2009 KHEMKARAN - Six kilograms of heroin worth five million dollars seized at the India-Pakistan international border at Khemkaran in Punjab. Officers of the Special Narcotic cell (SNC) of the state police force said that on a tip off, a raid was conducted and six packets of the drug were found buried near the barbed fencing at the international border on Sunday.

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.

February 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A man hs been arrested here for possessing 1.032 kg of heroin valued at Rs.10 million in the international market, police said Friday. Deepak Pandey, a resident of Jalandhar in Punjab, was arrested from Haiderpur Bridge in Samaipur Badli, where he had come to deliver the consignment Thursday.

February 2nd, 2009 AMRITSAR - In yet another drug haul in the border areas of Punjab, the Border Security Force (BSF) Tuesday recovered five kg of heroin in the Khem Karan sector of the India-Pakistan international border. BSF officials said that the drugs consignment was concealed in packets and concealed under loose soil under a big tree.