Punjab Police Recovers 11 Grenades Dropped By means of Drone From Pakistan

Chandigarh:

11 hand grenades dropped by way of a drone flying in from Pakistan have been recovered from a box close to the Global Border in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district, police stated on Monday.

The consignment was once present in a box in Salach village, positioned about 1 km from the border, Gurdaspur Senior Superintendent of Police Rajinder Singh Sohal instructed PTI over the telephone.

The field of hand grenades were hooked up with a wood body and was once reduced from the drone to the bottom with a nylon rope, stated police, including that they recovered it on Sunday night.

Director Normal of Police (DGP) Dinkar Gupta stated they introduced a seek operation straight away after receiving data from the Border Safety Pressure concerning the drone motion.

The BSF team of workers deployed on the Chakri border outpost within the Gurdaspur sector had spotted a Pakistani drone coming into the Indian territory round 11.30 pm and so they straight away fired more than one photographs to convey it down.

After the BSF alerted the Gurdaspur police concerning the incident, the station space officer of Dorangla reached the spot.

On listening to the humming sound of the drone, law enforcement officials fired more than one photographs from AK-47 and SLR rifles to convey it down but it surely quickly disappeared, stated police.

A seek and brushing operation was once introduced on Sunday morning, resulting in the restoration of a plastic field containing 11 Arges-type HG 84.

The drone, then again, was once now not recovered and it’s suspected that it controlled to fly again into Pakistan after shedding the recovered payload, stated police.

The Arges-type HG 84 is a standard gadget, spraying shrapnel out to a distance of 30 metres, the DGP stated.

A case beneath the related sections of the Explosive Components Act has been registered on the Dorangla police station in Gurdaspur and extra investigation is on, stated the DGP.

The primary incident of shedding of hands and guns via drones from Pakistan got here to mild in Punjab in September 2019 when police recovered AK-47 rifles, magazines and rounds of ammunition, hand grenades, pretend foreign money and different pieces in Tarn Taran district.

Police on Monday stated they’ve arrested two extra folks in a case involving the cross-border smuggling of hands and medicine via drones.

On December 14 this yr, police had arrested Lakhbir Singh and Bachittar Singh, who have been individuals of a module the use of drones for cross-border smuggling of narcotics and guns.

The wondering of Lakhbir resulted in the arrest of a Delhi-based Fortunate Dhawan who had provided him with a quadcoptor drone with none formal documentation or billing, as required beneath govt directions, stated police.

All over wondering, Dhawan printed that the drone provided to Lakhbir was once assembled by way of Baldev Singh, a resident of Delhi.

Seek of his workshop resulted in the restoration of 4 drones, stated Dinkar Gupta. Baldev Singh does now not possess any legitimate govt authorisation to behavior the trade of acquire and sale of drones, stated police.

Police stated they’re analyzing paperwork recovered from Dhawan to track provides of drones and their {hardware} to Punjab and different states.

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