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Over the years, the fig of drones that are being flown into the Indian territory from crossed the International borderline with Pakistan successful Punjab has seen a important rise. (File/ Representative Image)
A grounds fig of 25 drones from crossed the borderline with Pakistan person been intercepted and brought down by the Border Security Force (BSF) successful Punjab successful past 10 days.
With this, the full fig of drones intercepted connected the Indo-Pak borderline successful Punjab by the Punjab Frontier HQs of BSF is 225 from January 2024 till date. The full fig of drones intercepted and neutralized from January 2023 till day has present reached 354, including 129 drones neutralised successful 2023.
A connection issued by the Punjab Frontier HQs of BSF connected X said that this milestone comes conscionable 10 days aft the interception of the 200th drone connected November 9, 2024. The accomplishment comes successful the backmost driblet of operational handicap of operating nether mediocre visibility caused by heavy fog.
On October 18, successful a azygous day, BSF seized 5 drones, including 4 Chinese made DJI Mavic 3 Classic and 1 DJI AIR 3S drone. Two of these drones were carrying heroin consignments weighing 548 grams and 555 grams respectively. The recoveries were made successful farming fields adjacent to Tarn Taran and Amritsar Border areas. “The investigation of method information from seized drones has resulted successful the improvement of caller operational strategies and the implementation of enhanced information measures on the Punjab border. These advancements person enabled the precise and palmy interception of 25 drones wrong conscionable 10 days,” the BSF connection says.
The BSF further added that this accomplishment sets a caller benchmark successful borderline surveillance and counter-drone operations, adjacent nether adverse upwind conditions.
The drones, astir of which are Chinese made, transportation drugs, arms, ammunition and fake currency from Pakistan into India, are mostly brought down done method interception successful Abohar, Ferozepur, Tarn Taran, Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Pathankot districts, with maximum recoveries from Tarn Taran and Amritsar, BSF sources said.
Sources added that with amended drone interdiction exertion present disposable with the BSF, they are capable to bring down a ample fig of the drones and prehend the consignments that they carried. Punjab has a 553 km-long borderline with Pakistan, astir of which is fenced. However, determination are definite riverine stretches wherever the obstruction gets damaged during monsoons owed to flooding of rivers and hence the BSF has to instrumentality other precautions to guarantee that determination is nary amerciable enactment undertaken by the smugglers by taking vantage of the situation.
According to elder BSF officers, operations successful the borderline areas are besides undertaken with the adjacent practice of Punjab Police successful the borderline areas. The Punjab Police has undertaken an extended workout to instal CCTV cameras each on important points connected the Indo-Pak border.
As per a connection issued by the Punjab DGP, Gaurav Yadav, precocious the task worthy Rs 20 crores has been already sanctioned. Tenders for the aforesaid were besides floated by the Punjab Police a fewer months back
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