Jammu, March 30 – Two Border Security Force (BSF) officers were injured on Monday in Samba, Jammu and Kashmir, during a raid on a drug hotspot in the district.
Officials said that two junior-level BSF officers – an inspector and a sub-inspector – were injured during the raid in the Gujjar Basti village of the Supwal area of the district, when locals attacked them.
The injured officers have been identified as Inspector Imtiyaz and Sub-Inspector Devender Kumar. Reports also stated that the two officers were not in uniform when the incident occurred.
The police have registered a case, and an investigation has been started.
More details are awaited.
According to reports, both officers have been shifted to AIIMS Jammu for treatment and are reportedly in stable condition.
Jammu and Kashmir shares a 240 km international border with Samba, Kathua, and Jammu districts of the Jammu division. This border is guarded by the BSF. The force is deployed to prevent infiltration, exfiltration, drug smuggling, and drone activity initiated from across the border by terrorist groups with the help of Pakistani forces.
These drones carry weapons, ammunition, cash, and drugs for the terrorists. The ground-level workers (OGWs) of terrorist groups pick up these items and hand them over to the terrorists to sustain terrorism.
In addition, the union territory also has a 740-km-long Line of Control (LoC) in the Baramulla, Kupwara, and Bandipora districts of the Valley and Poonch, Rajouri, and partially in the Jammu district.
The LoC is guarded by the Army, which performs the same duties on the LoC as the BSF does on the international border.
In the hinterland, anti-terrorist operations and operations against drug smugglers, drug peddlers, and those involved in hawala money rackets are carried out by the Jammu and Kashmir Police and the security forces.
The BSF has installed state-of-the-art anti-drone equipment along the entire international border in the union territory. After the installation of this equipment, drone activity by terrorist groups has decreased.