This time, it is a Quadcopter drone that was caught by Border Security Forces and Tarn Taran Police in a joint operation. It is the fourth such drone which was recovered in less than a week. This drone was loaded with three packets of heroin, weighing 3.06Kg. As per information, the drone was found during a search operation launched at the border area of Border Outpost (BOP) Kalia in Tarn Taran on the intervening night of Saturday
and Sunday.
Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav said that this is the fourth such drone recovered by the Tarn Taran Police
in less than a week.
Notably, a hexacopter drone carrying six packets of heroin, weighing 6.68 kg, was recovered in the jurisdiction of Border Outpost (BOP) Harbhajan in Khemkaran on Tuesday. On the very next day, a broken quadcopter drone was recovered from the area of village Van Tara Singh in Khalra. Similarly, another hexacopter drone carrying five packets of heroin, weighing 5.60 kg, was recovered from the Khemkaran area in Tarn
Taran on Friday.
DGP Gaurav Yadav said that after noticing the drone movement in Indo-Pak border on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, Police teams from Tarn Taran district immediately shared the pin-pointed inputs with the BSF and jointly conducted an intensive search operation in the area of Village Kalia District Tarn Taran, which was just 2kms away from the Indo-Pak border.
He said that the combing operation resulted in the recovery of a Drone model No. DJI MATRICE 300RTX loaded with three
packets of Heroin.
Sharing more details, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Tarn Taran Sukhminder Singh Mann said that investigations are on to ascertain the identity of the Pak smugglers, who sent the consignment via drone, and also their Indian associates, who were to receive this air-dropped
consignment of heroin.