Intel officer briefs police on smuggling via drones in Jaisalmer

JAISALMER: ADG intelligence S Sengathir, who is in Jaisalmer on annual inspection, told the police on Saturday that delivery of drugs and weapons through drones from Pakistan at the border was a new threat and challenge, to counter which a strategy was being prepared with the BSF, Army, IB and other central agencies.
Sengathir also said that in view of assembly elections to be held later this year, a watch must be kept on all areas along the border. He said that smuggling through drones was shifting to the Sri Ganganagar border with Punjab. He said that consignments were being dropped through drones from midnight to 3-4am. He said drugs were earlier being dropped from small drones but now big payload drones are capable of dropping weapons as well.
Sengathir flagged complaints of heroin smuggling through drones in Barmer and Sri Ganganagar districts. Recently, two heroin consignments were caught in Jaisalmer that were being brought from Barmer. Sengathir said that smugglers of heroin were targeting people who were poor or worked as manual labourers. He said that the Bharatmala highway that touches Punjab via Jaisalmer and Barmer in Rajasthan was being used by smugglers. A proposal has been sent to the state government to set up check posts on this highway, he said.