Two people had been arrested and weapons and ammunition had been seized from their possession in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district in a joint operation by the Border Security Force and the state’s Special Task Force, officers mentioned on Saturday (January 27). BSF and STF personnel performed a raid on a home in Gurdaspur’s Deriwal Kiran village late Thursday night time, a BSF spokesperson mentioned.
During the search, 100 grams of heroin and 13 rounds of a .32-bore pistol had been discovered, he mentioned.
Thereafter, joint groups of the two forces performed one other raid on a home in Uppal village the place they seized a pump motion gun (PAG-type) together with 10 rounds and a pistol with one .32 bore cartridge. Two individuals had been arrested in the operation, the spokesperson mentioned.
In one other incident, BSF and Punjab Police personnel recovered a drone and a packet of heroin weighing 519 grams from a discipline in Amritsar district’s Mode village, he added.
The search operation was performed on Friday based mostly on particular data, the official added.
(With PTI inputs)
