The Border Safety Power has discovered two pistols and 7 cartridges close to the Indo-Pakistan border at Sri Ganganagar in Rajasthan, sparking suspicion of cross-border arms smuggling, safety officers have stated.
In response to BSF sources, the arms had been present in an unclaimed packet close to 11 FA village on November 30. Authorities initially suspected it to be narcotics, smuggled in utilizing drones.
This comes at a time when cross-border narcotics smuggling utilizing low-cost drones is already a trigger for fear. Considerably, drone seizures alongside the Worldwide Border in Punjab doubled to 200 final month, with the BSF claiming that it indicated that Pakistani syndicates proceed to push narcotics and weapons to “destabilise” India by inducing drug habit.
The BSF has registered a case in Srikaranpur police station in reference to the newest restoration, Sri Ganganagar SP Gaurav Yadav instructed The Indian Specific.
“Within the final 5 years, six incidents of arms drop utilizing drones have come to mild. Though smuggling of narcotics utilizing drones is a routine prevalence now, utilizing it for arms drop can be changing into regarding,” he stated.
Police suspect a Punjab connection within the case, with the police and BSF now probing additional.
