Indian Border Forces Shooting Due Drone Allegedly Carrying Drugs From Pakistan

The drone suspected of carrying drugs was shot down. (Twitter/@BSF_Punjab)

Indian border police said on Tuesday they had shot down a drone from Pakistan near Amritsar City, allegedly an unusual payload.

Border Security Forces said they shot a hexacopter late Monday inside India near Chaharpur Village, about 40 km from Amritsar City, finding allegations of drugs accompanying it.

"The BSF standby forces once again managed to capture drones and thwart smuggling attempts," said a representative of the troops, reported by The National News December 1.

The BSF said the drone, weighing about 18kg, carried 3kg of plastic bags filled with white powder when found damaged on agricultural land.

The UAV incident came just four days after troops claimed to have shot down another drone in the region.

It is known that the northern state of agreed, with Amritsar one of its largest cities, known as international drug trafficking routes, with narcotics from Afghanistan smuggled through Pakistan into India and other parts of the world.

For years, Indian authorities said the highly militarized fenced border had prompted smugglers to use drones to smuggle drugs into India.

New Delhi also accused Islamabad of smuggling weapons and ammunition into a disputedgience region, where armed insurgency has been raging against the Indian government since the 1980s.

Indian authorities have so far reported about 230 drone attempts from across international borders since January 2022. Last year, the reported number was around 100.

India says about 80 drones have infiltrated the Indian side of the Control Line, a highly militarized border between nuclear-armed countries dividing the Himalayan territory in themen.

Meanwhile, Islamabad also accused New Delhi of using drones to spy, which it said had been shot down.

Gross weight of narcotics - Approx 3.110 kgDrone weight- 18.050 kg pic.twitter.com/7gnpCB8xsl

— BSF PUNJAB FRONTIER (@BSF_Punjab) November 29, 2022