Arms Drop Drone Recovered Near Pakistan Border

Amritsar: Revelations by arrested militants of the Khalistan Zindabad Force led to the recovery of a China-made drone, the second one that was used to airdrop arms and ammunition from Pakistan into India’s Punjab, from a village close to the border in Amritsar district on Friday, officials said.

A team of the state’s counter-intelligence wing took militants Akashdeep Singh and Shubhdeep Singh to Mahawa village in Amritsar district, where they had hidden the drone in bushes.

Shubhdeep Singh was arrested a day earlier. He was the seventh person arrested in the case. During interrogation, the militants revealed that four drones that were used to airdrop the weapons were hidden in the border Tarn Taran district.

The police are still trying to ascertain whether the recovered drone is among the four, whose presence was revealed by the militants during the interrogation. Earlier, police had recovered a drone, the last one, that crashed in the Indian territory and found it fitted with high-end technology and GPS. A massive combing operation in border areas by the counter-intelligence wing is on to trace the remaining three drones, a senior police official told IANS here.

The Indian Army and the Border Security Force have also sounded an all-out alert along the international border after reports of the drones.

China-made drones, capable of carrying a 10 kg payload each, made at least eight sorties this month to drop weapons, counterfeit currency and communications equipment across the heavily-guarded border in once-militant hotbed Punjab, an intelligence official said. (IANS)

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