BSF discovers 80 metre-long tunnel for smuggling

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The BSF troops killed an alleged Pakistani smuggler and nabbed his accomplice with 9 kilogram heroin and firearms in Abohar late Friday.(HT Photo)

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The Border Security Force (BSF) troops killed an alleged Pakistani smuggler and nabbed his accomplice with 9 kilogram heroin and firearms in the Jagannath border outpost of Punjab’s Abohar sector late Friday.

BSF deputy inspector general (DIG, Abohar sector) Madhu Sudan Sharma said at 11.30pm, their troops noticed some movement of Pakistani smugglers near the border fence and sounded an alert.

Soon after the BSF troops challenged the alleged Pak smugglers when they approached the fence to push the contraband to the Indian side, the latter opened fire, the DIG said.

When the BSF troops retaliated in self-defence, both the alleged smugglers sustained bullet injuries.

During search, the BSF troops apprehended one of the injured, identified as Gafoor Ahmed, a resident of Kasur in Pakistan, with a 7.63mm pistol, two magazines, seven rounds and eight packets of heroin, Sharma said.

He said the other smuggler, who got injured in the firing, crossed back the IB was being taken away by the Pakistani Rangers in the morning.

 

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PK Jaiswar

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, February 16

The Amritsar rural police, along with the bomb disposal squad of the Punjab Police and Army, today disposed of a huge quantity of explosive material, including RDX, confiscated in Punjab.

The explosives, arms and ammunition, made in China and Russia, were smuggled from Pakistan in order to disturb the peace in the region. Amritsar rural police chief Parampal Singh, SSP, said that today, the police destroyed 47.55 kg of RDX, nine rockets, 16 hand grenades (HE 36), six stick bombs, 50 country-made hand grenades, 33 detonators, two pencil bombs, 10 gelatin sticks and two country-made bombs. A huge quantity of RDX along with other explosive materials had been stored at a single place since 2004.

The idea was that the area falls under the Mand area and had a negligible population at that time. The advantage was that the Army dump area was also near and could be reached in case of emergency. However, it became a headache for the Police Department as the area’s population grew over the years.

So, the police wrote a number of times to the Ministry of Defence, urging it to take steps to defuse it safely. The process of destroying the explosives started on January 22.

 

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Police personnel deployed outside Guru Gobind Singh Refinery in Bathinda to control ‘goonda tax’, on Saturday. A Tribune photo

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A heavy police force was deployed outside the refinery and the roads leading to it. A police team led by Talwandi Sabo DSP Barinder Singh reached the refinery today. Prior to it, SSP Naveen Singla held a meeting with DSP Talwandi Sabo, SHO Rama and other police officials.

Talking to The Tribune, the SSP said: “We have initiated patrolling in the areas around the refinery. Two PCR motorcycles will carry out round-the-clock patrolling. We have also set up a mini-control room at the refinery police post, which has been linked with the district police control room. We will also instal CCTV cameras, for which the state government has already approved funds.”

The SSP shifted Balwinder Singh, incharge of refinery police post. He has been replaced by Krishan Kumar.

He said the incharge would now be permanently deployed at the main gate of the refinery, adding that the police would act tough against those indulging in illegal activities. Meanwhile, the police are yet to register a case on the basis of complaints lodged by various transporters regarding the collection of “goonda tax”.

 

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BSF kills smuggler along Indo-Pak border in Punjab, seizes 10kg heroin
Ten kilograms of heroin along with arms and ammunition were seized by the BSF.
india Updated: Feb 20, 2018 11:39 IST
Hindustan Times, Ferozepur

Arms and narcotics seized by the Border Security Force.(ANI/Twitter)

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A smuggler was shot dead while another managed to flee during an ambush along the Indo-Pak border in Punjab late Monday night . Ten kilograms of heroin were seized by the BSF.

The incident took place along the Barreke post in Ferozepur sector of the International Border where the Border Security Force (BSF) and the special task force of the Punjab police laid an ambush to intercept cross-border drug smugglers and infiltrators.

BSF officials noticed movements across the fencing at a border pillar. When they were challenged by the BSF, the smugglers on the other side opened fire and the troops retaliated.

During the cross fire, one intruder was killed while the other managed to flee back to Pakistan.

The BSF seized ten kilograms of heroin, a China-made pistol, two magazines and 17 cartridges, a Pakistani mobile and three SIM cards.

(With inputs from PTI)

 

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Rachhpal Singh, AIG, STF (border range), addresses a press conference in Ferozepur on Friday. Tribune photo
Our Correspondent
Ferozepur, February 23
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Over three days after the recovery of 10-kg heroin in an operation conducted jointly by the Special Task Force (STF) and the Border Security Force (BSF), the STF today nabbed four drug peddlers in a follow-up operation. The STF team recovered 2.5-kg heroin from them.

The accused were identified as Manjit Singh of Hajara Singh Wala village in Mamdot and brothers Sharma Singh, Satnam Singh and Gulshan Singh, residents of Tahliwala village in Jalalabad subdivision of Fazilka district. Talking to mediapersons, Rachhpal Singh, AIG, STF (border range), said the accused were involved in cross-border drug peddling for the past several years. He said Manjit had procured agricultural land across the fence on contract near Jalloke village. 2 nabbed with contraband Jalandhar:

Two persons were arrested with about 760-gm heroin by the Nawanshahr CIA staff and the Counter-Intelligence unit, Ropar. Around 500-gm heroin was recovered from Harnam Singh Sekhon and 260 gm from Sunny Sood. A case was registered against them at Kathgarh police station under the NDPS Act. On a tip-off, the arrests were made at a naka at Banna village near the Balachaur-Ropar highway.

The court of Additional Civil Judge (Senior Division), Balachaur, Rupinder Singh remanded them in police custody for a day. It is learnt that Sekhon is already facing a case in Ludhiana for possession of 6-gm heroin.

He had also been convicted to five years’ imprisonment in another case by a Nawanshahr court. Sood was named in a theft case in Ludhiana. — TNS

 

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UP resident held with two pistols Sangrur: The CIA arrested an Uttar Pradesh resident on Sunday night and seized two pistols from his possession. On a tip-off, the CIA team laid a naka near Khanauri on the Kaithal road and intercepted car-borne Mohammad Akram of Saharanpur, SSP Mandeep Sidhu said. A preliminary investigation has revealed that the accused used to purchase pistols at Rs 3,000 each from Saharanpur and was selling the same for Rs 5,000 apiece in Punjab. TNS

Robbers take away Rs 3 lakh at gunpoint Ferozepur: Two robbers looted Rs 3 lakh at gunpoint from a man in the Zira subdivision of Ferozepur district. The victim, Ajaib Singh, had gone to an HDFC bank branch at Talwandi Bhai to withdraw Rs 5 lakh for his daughter's marriage. When he was coming back from the bank, two masked robbers in a white Hyundai i-20 intercepted him on the Zira-Talwandi link road near Gadriwala village and took away Rs 3 lakh from him and snatched the keys of the car. OC

AMRITSAR: The BSF nabbed a Pakistani intruder near the Moranwali border outpost here on Sunday. Though nothing objectionable was recovered from him, he was arrested and handed over to the police. The police have registered a case under Sections 3, 34, 20 of the Passport Act, Section 14 of the Foreigners Act and Section 188 of the IPC against him. Jatinder Singh, Assistant Commandant, BSF, said the accused identified himself as Mohammad Mustaq Javed of Lahore, Pakistan. He was arrested from near gate number 99 at the barbed fence in the Ajnala area. He was roaming near the border fence "suspiciously". TN

 

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BSF troops noticed suspicious movement near the border fence at the Ghaniake Border Outpost. File photo
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Chandigarh, March 5

A 40-year-old Pakistani intruder was on Monday shot dead by BSF troops near the Indo-Pak border in Punjab’s Gurdaspur sector, an official of the force said.

BSF troops noticed suspicious movement near the border fence at the Ghaniake Border Outpost, the official said. The Pakistani man crossed the border fence and entered Indian territory.

BSF troops challenged him but he did not stop, he said. BSF personnel then opened fire and killed him, the official said.
Pakistani Rangers has been contacted for handing over of the body, he said. — PTI

 

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Border Security Force and police officials with the recovered material in Fazilka on Thursday. Tribune photo
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Fazilka, March 8
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The Border Security Force and Punjab Police, during a joint operation, seized four packets of heroin weighing 3.13 kg worth Rs 15 crore in the international market, three Pakistani SIMs and ammunition from across the barbed wire fencing near border outpost Natha Singh Wala in Jalalabad subdivision of Fazilka district.

Sources said that on a tip-off, the 2nd battalion of the BSF and Punjab Police launched a search operation at 10 am today. They found four packets of heroin, one China-made pistol, three Pak SIMs, one magazine and eight live cartridges wrapped in a school bag. The material was buried in an agricultural land near the international border.

 

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The BSF has launched a massive operation along International Border (IB) to uncover a tunnel through which armed infiltrators are suspected to have sneaked inside the Kathua district, a senior official said on Wednesday.

“An operation has been started to uncover the tunnel. It is going on,” BSF’s IG, Jammu Frontier, Ram Awtar, told PTI here.

He said the BSF has inducted several JCB machines, a large number of troops and other types of manpower into the area and a search was going on.

The terrain is like the riverine Chambal valley belt but we are at it, Awtar said.

Yesterday, BSF DG KK Sharma had termed as “very serious”, Pakistan’s attempts to push infiltrators across including the latest instances which comes days ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Jammu and Kashmir on May 19.

The BSF and Army troops have detected six cross border tunnels along the Indo-Pak border in Jammu region since 2012. These were used to infiltrate militants from the Pakistan side into Jammu and Kashmir.

On September 30, 2017, troops of the 62nd battalion of the BSF detected an unfinished tunnel ahead of the border fence along IB in Arnia belt of Jammu district during a search operation. The tunnel was about 12 to 14 feet long with a height of 3 feet and two and a half feet wide.

On February 14, 2017, the BSF detected a tunnel originating from the Pakistani side along the IB in Samba district. During an anti-tunnelling exercise, the BSF detected the approximately 20-metre tunnel ahead of the fence into Indian territory in Ramgarh sector. On March 3, 2016, a 30-metre-long tunnel from Pakistan to the Indian side was detected by the BSF in the RS Pura sector of Jammu district.

In May 2014, a caved-in portion of a tunnel in Chillyari border belt in Samba district was found. It was 23 metres inside the Indian territory, officials said.

BSF had detected a 400-metre long cross-border tunnel along the International Border in July 2012 in Samba sector. Another tunnel was discovered in August 2014, which was approximately 130 to 150 metres in length along the Line of Control (LoC) and originated on the Pakistan side, near a forward post along Indo-Pak border in Jammu region’s sensitive Pallanwala sector.

Failure to detect the tunnel, through which five militants are suspected to have sneaked into Kathua district ahead of the PM’s visit has caused fear among residents of the border belt. Villagers of Bobiyan and Londi have been praying for early detection of the tunnel apprehending that Pakistan may push more militants through the route to trigger terror attacks in the region.

“We pray for early detection of this tunnel. Our fears are increasing day by day due to the delays,” Bobiyan villager Dalbir Singh said.