CHANDIGARH: The Border Security Force (BSF) and Punjab Police allegedly foiled a terror plot and recovered a cache of arms and ammunition from near Bharopal village in Amritsar district.Sources said that acting on tip off from the intelligence wing of BSF a joint search operation was conducted Wednesday evening leading to the recovery of two hand grenades, three pistols with six magazines and 50 live rounds which was later handed over to the state police for further investigation. “The swift and coordinated action with Punjab Police has prevented a possible terror incident,” said a BSF official.Meanwhile, in another operation, Punjab Police recovered 5 kilograms of heroin from the rented hideout of one Jodhbir Singh alias Jodha, who is wanted in a Pakistan-backed illegal weapon smuggling module in Amritsar.Director General of Police, Punjab, Gaurav Yadav said here on Thursday that the development came four days after Counter Intelligence unit of Amritsar arrested Jodhbir’s accomplice, identified as Abhishek Kumar, of village Meerankot Kalan in Amritsar. He was supplying weapons to anti-social elements on the instructions of his Australia-based handler identified as Jassa. Police teams had also recovered seven pistols and Rs 1.5 lakh cash from his possession, besides, impounding his Mahindra Thar vehicle which was used for weapon smuggling.Yadav said that preliminary investigation revealed that Australia-based handler Jassa and his associates with links to Pakistan-based smugglers were directing accused Jodhbir to retrieve heroin consignments for further distribution at different locations.
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