Amritsar, July 15 -- BSF troops seized two huge consignments of heroin, weighing over 9 kg, at Amritsar and Gurdaspur border on Monday, officials said.

A BSF spokesperson said that the search operation was carried out after getting specific inputs from the force's intelligence wing in afternoon hours. "A big packet of suspected heroin (weighing 3.556 kg) was found in an irrigated agricultural field near Thetherke village of Gurdaspur district. It had three small packets in it. The packet was wrapped in a yellow adhesive tape with an iron hook attached to it," the spokesperson said.

According to officials, around 6-kg heroin was seized in Amritsar district in another case. "Based on specific information, a search operation was launched b...