BSF foils arms smuggling bid along Indo-Pak border

BSF has foiled a bid to smuggle explosives and arms along Indo-Pak border near here, officials said today.
    
According to BSF officials, in a new strategy adopted by cross-border militants, a consignment of arms, ammunition, explosive and cash was thrown from across the border over a fencing of an agriculture field near Bakarpur-Gharana forward
area, about 40 km from here, in the district yesterday.
    
The consignment, which was supposed to be collected by persons on this side of the border, was recovered by BSF jawans during patrolling, they said.
    
Fearing that it was IED trap laid by the cross-border militants, BSF rushed a bomb disposal squad to the site and after several hours of scanning, they recovered 3.5 kg RDX, three Chinese pistols, 211 rounds of 9mm pistol, three detonators, three batteries and Rs 3.5 lakh cash in Indian currency in the denomination of 1,000 and 500, they said.
    
DIG BSF C Vasudevan, who is in-charge of the RS Pura sector, said it is a new method of the militants to smuggle arms, ammunition and explosives into the state by throwing it into the Indian fields and later carried by their people on
this side to militants.