PK Jaiswar
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, December 18
Back to back seizures of PVC pipes inserted in the barbed fence and killing of two Pakistani smugglers at Rajatal border village at Indo-Pak border have prompted the Border Security Force(BSF) and Punjab Police to intensify search operations at villages located near the international border.
The Punjab Police have been carrying out search operations in the border belt following regular movements of drones from Pakistani side near the Indo-Pak border. The BSF jawans deputed at the international border reported sounds for drones during midnights when the visibility becomes negligible because of dense fog in the winters. According to BSF officials, winters witness a surge in the smuggling bid though the jawans remain alert and have foiled several smuggling bids.
A huge quantity of drugs was apparently sneaked into Indian territory at Rajatal and Daoke border villages on Sunday where the 71 battalion of BSF seized two PVC pipes inserted in the electrified bared fence.
Following the complaints by the BSF, the Punjab Police registered two separate FIRs under Sections 3, 34 and 20 of the Indian Passport Act and Section 14 of the Foreign Act against unknown intruders in this connection.
An official of the Amritsar rural police said that search operations had been intensified in the border villages. “Search operations were carried out in Rajatal, Daoke and other nearby border villages and it would continue in the near future also,” he said.
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