The amount and high quality of the consignment is being ascertained, the officers added.
This is the fifth reported interception of a “rogue” unmanned aerial automobile alongside the Punjab border since May 19.
A number of extra situations of troops selecting up the buzzing sound of a drone have been reported over the last four days however nothing extra may very well be established, the officers mentioned.
The BSF troops shot down two drones and intercepted a 3rd alongside the entrance on Friday (May 19). A BSF spokesperson had mentioned the third drone fell into Pakistani territory and couldn’t be recovered.
A drone that “violated Indian airspace on Saturday evening (May 20) was intercepted by firing in the jurisdiction of the Amritsar sector” and the drive recovered 3.3 kilogrammes of suspected narcotics that was slung below it.
Punjab shares an over 500-kilometre-long entrance with Pakistan that’s guarded by the BSF and drones and unmanned aerial autos withdrawing from that nation into India with medicine and arms and ammunition payloads have change into a matter of concern for safety businesses over the last three-four years.