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BSF seizes heroin on India-Pakistan border

By:  Tupaki Desk   |   24 July 2013 4:51 PM
The Border Security Force (BSF) said Wednesday it had seized five kg of heroin valued at Rs.25 crore from the border with Pakistan in Punjab.

The consignment was recovered during a search operation Tuesday at the Bhanian border outpost in Amritsar district, spokesperson Tirtha Acharya told IANS.

"(We) recovered five packets of contraband suspected to be heroin weighing five kg from a cemented pipe, four feet long and 10 inch in diameter, near a diesel tube well inside Indian territory," he said.

"This is a new modus-operandi of some drug traffickers. They place such contraband inside the pipe, and it is then taken out by associates on the other side," the official said.