The Border Security Force (BSF) said Wednesday it had seized five kg of heroin valued at Rs.25 crore from the border with Pakistan in Punjab.
The consignment was recovered during a search operation Tuesday at the Bhanian border outpost in Amritsar district, spokesperson Tirtha Acharya told IANS.
"(We) recovered five packets of contraband suspected to be heroin weighing five kg from a cemented pipe, four feet long and 10 inch in diameter, near a diesel tube well inside Indian territory," he said.
"This is a new modus-operandi of some drug traffickers. They place such contraband inside the pipe, and it is then taken out by associates on the other side," the official said.
