Border Security Force recovers heroin worth more than ₹6 crore from India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal
The Hindu
BSF foils major heroin smuggling attempt on India-Bangladesh border, seizing 3.387 kg of heroin worth ₹6.77 crore.
The South Bengal Frontier of the Border Security Force (BSF) on Friday (March 21, 2025), foiled a major smuggling attempt on the India-Bangladesh International Border in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, recovering 3.387 kg of heroin. The heroin is estimated to be worth about ₹6,77,40,000.
According to a statement by the BSF, personnel stationed at the Border Outpost Pirojpur in Murshidabad were alerted by credible intelligence on Saturday (March 22, 2025) that illegal items could be smuggled from the Sadamachar area.
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Based on this intelligence, the jawans had heightened their vigilance, devised a special strategy, and initiated rigorous surveillance across the border region.
Around 4 p.m., two jawans spotted two ‘suspicious individuals’ approaching the International Border from the Indian side towards Bangladesh. When the jawans instructed them to stop and approached them, the smugglers reportedly dumped the contraband in bushes nearby out of fear and tried to escape. According to the BSF, the jawans chased the smugglers and caught one of them. The other escaped.
During the preliminary interrogation, the smuggler admitted to being a Bangladeshi citizen and confessed his involvement in various cross-border smuggling activities in the recent past.
He claimed that the packets of heroin were handed over to him by his Indian associates, who had instructed him to deliver them to another Bangladeshi contact on the other side of the border. In return, he was to receive some money.
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