Heroin worth £30 mn seized

Pakistani smugglers, taking advantage of the strong current in river Ravi, tried to push towards the Indian side high-grade heroine worth £30 million stuffed in football bladders, but the alert BSF personnel thwarted their attempt. The BSF men at the Nangli Ghat picket noticed 60 multi-coloured bladders tied together floating in the river. The bladders were covered with water hyacinth as a disguise and the smugglers were trying to control these using a nylon rope. The BSF seized the heroin and was in the process of handing it over to the Narcotics Control Bureau sleuths. DIG (Gurdaspur sector) Rajesh Sharma said he received a call regarding the sighting of some unidentified substance in the river. He along with fellow officers reached the scene within half an hour. Sharma said that the consignment was being controlled from the other side of the border using a long rope. Batala SSP Opinderjit Singh Ghuman said they were trying to track down the intended recipients.