Border Security Force (BSF) troops thwarted an infiltration attempt along the border with Pakistan and shot dead two armed smugglers near Sriganganagar in Rajasthan on Tuesday night, officials said Wednesday.
BSF soldiers confiscated weapons and ammunition, drugs and Pakistani currency from the dead intruders who tried to cross the border fence.
“During the intervening night of September 8 and 9, in specific intelligence on the smuggling of narcotics from Pakistan to the India side of the Khayaliwala border post in Sriganganagar, BSF alert troops thwarted a nefarious attempt by armed smugglers and two smugglers were shot dead, “said a BSF official. said.
When searching the area, the BSF found two pistols, 28 rounds of ammunition, eight packages of narcotics, a night vision device, 13,000 rupees in Pakistan, a national identity card No. 31103-7254202-1 in the name of Shahbaz Ali S / or Mustaq Ahmed along with the bodies of the intruders.
The BSF and the police have launched a search operation in the area and an FIR has been registered at Gajsinghpur Police Station.
The shooting comes less than three weeks after the BSF shot dead five intruders attempting to cross into Indian territory from Pakistan, in a village in the Tarn Taran district of Punjab.
An AK-series rifle and a pistol were recovered from the place where the intruders were killed near the Dal village of the district’s Bhikhiwind subdivision.
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