A smuggler was shot at but managed to crawl back to the Pakistani side as the Border Security Force (BSF) said it foiled a smuggling attempt along the India-Pakistan border in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K)’s Samba district and recovered about eight kg of what is believed to be heroin in the early hours of Thursday.
In a statement, the BSF said troopers noticed a suspicious movement of the smuggler carrying a bag and fired and injured him. “On searches, eight packets (about 8 kgs) of narcotics, likely to be heroin were recovered from the spot.”
This comes after the army foiled two infiltration attempts along the Line of Control (LoC), which divides Jammu & Kashmir and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, and captured an intruder, Tabarak Hussain.
Hussain told his interrogators that a Pakistani army officer paid him 30,000 Pakistani rupees and he conducted two to three recces of Indian forward posts on the LoC along with other terrorists with an aim to target them at an opportune time. Hussain was captured from the same area in 2016 along with his brother, Haroon Ali, but was repatriated on humanitarian grounds in November 2017.
Another group of terrorists tried to infiltrate separately but at least two of them were killed as they moved into a minefield. One of the terrorists was believed to have possibly been injured and hiding. An operation was launched in the heavily mined area and the bodies of the two terrorists were recovered along with one AK-56, three magazines, and a large quantity of ammunition.
In a statement, the army said as the area is heavily mined, the search operation is being carried out carefully. “More recoveries in the area are expected.”