Border Security Force seized a plastic bottle containing 1.550 kg contraband suspected to be heroin from the river Ravi in the area of responsibility of 73rd Bn of the BSF in Gurdaspur sector.
A spokesperson of the Punjab Frontier Headquarters of the BSF here said on Saturday, that the alert troops of the BSF deployed to monitor activities of the anti-social elements along the bank of the river, saw some object floating in the river waters following which they fished out the substance that turned out to be a plastic bottle filled with heroin weighing 1.550 kg.
Value of the heroin is said to be more than Rs.7.50 crore in the international market.
