"Tactical operations are being mounted to foil attempts of smugglers and anti-national elements during this foggy season," BSF DIG (Punjab Frontier) R S Kataria said.
In view of the border vulnerability due to fog, extreme cold climate and forthcoming Republic Day celebrations, BSF Inspector General (Punjab Frontier) Anil Paliwal has issued operational guidelines to all the sectors for strengthening border domination so as to effectively check any infiltration attempt and activities of anti-national elements, he said.
Vigil along the border has been strengthened with additional deployment of personnel and all the riverine gaps have been effectively plugged with surveillance equipment and thermal imagers amid increase in manual vigilance, he said.
On the Line of Control, Kumar said there have been
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continuous incidents of ceasefire violations and BSF under the able guidance of the army are repulsing such incidents.
"But this was for the first incident after the Uri attack, that they tried to infiltrate through the international boundary and we gave them a befitting reply", he said.
"The next day sniping was done from the Pakistani side on the same place where Gurnam Singh was standing and he was targeted and the bullet hit him in the head, we wanted to evacuate him, but because of heavy fire we faced some problems.
"We retaliated and shifted him to GMC and every possible treatment was given to him and air ambulance was also kept ready to shift him, but sadly we lost him during the night", Kumar said.
"The BSF was planning to shift him to Delhi and Air ambulance was kept ready for that, but Gurnam breathed his last night," he said.
Gurnam's family had yesterday demanded that he be shifted to a better hospital.