A Pakistani drone carrying drugs was shot down by the Border Security Force (BSF) near the international border in the Amritsar district of India's Punjab state, an official of the force said on Monday.
He added that 3.2kg of heroin was recovered from the drone.
Talking to the media, a BSF spokesman said that the paramilitary force's personnel noticed the unmanned aerial vehicle at around 21:45 IST (16:15 GMT) on Sunday.
“They intercepted it by opening fire. And after it was shot down, they recovered a black drone [quadcopter, DJI Matrice, 300 RTK] along with three packets of heroin from a field in Amritsar's Ratta Khurd village,” the spokesman stated.
Early in the morning of 3 June, 5.5kg of narcotics allegedly dropped by a drone near Rai Village in Amritsar were also seized by the BSF and the Punjab Police.
A BSF official told the media that on the night of 2/3 June, troops heard the sound of a drone, and something being dropped in the fields.
A day before this, the BSF and Punjab Police seized 2.5kg of narcotics that were suspected to be dropped by a drone in Punjab's Fazilka sector. Two suspects associated with it were caught.
The BSF guards more than 500km of border shared by India's Punjab state and Pakistan. Drones and unmanned aerial vehicles regularly fly over from the neighboring country into India carrying drugs and ammunition, causing major problems for security agencies over the past three or four years.