Border Security Force (BSF) today seized heroin weighing 580 gram, worth around Rs three crore in the international market, from near a border out post at the international border, a senior official said today.
BSF's Jalandhar-based Punjab frontier Inspector General Anil Paliwal said that during the routine patrolling, force personnel found a pair of slippers and a packet containing the narcotics at Daoke border out of Amritsar sector at the international border.
The weight of recovered heroin is 580 gram and its worth in the international market is around Rs 2.90 crore, he added.
BSF has recovered a total of around 39.8 kg of smuggled heroin in Punjab, he said.