Kolkata Aug 16 (IANS) At least 24 kg of cannabis was seized by the Border Security Force (BSF) from a bamboo orchard in West Bengal s Nadia district an official said on Wednesday.
Acting on a tip off the BSF troopers of Meghna outpost conducted a special search operation on Tuesday afternoon and recovered the cannabis near the International Border.
"The BSF recovered 24 kg cannabis wrapped in six plastic packets in a gunny bag on Tuesday. The seized cannabis has been handed over to customs Jalangi " Deputy Inspector General of BSF s South Bengal frontier R.P.S. Jaswal said in a statement.
The south Bengal frontier of BSF has seized a total of 489 kg cannabis and arrested three Indian and two Bangladeshi smugglers so far this year.
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