Overview
- A local farmer found a suspicious packet while tilling a field in Bahadurpur Panchayat and alerted authorities, prompting BSF and Jammu and Kashmir police to cordon the site on Wednesday.
- The recovery followed a week-long, intelligence-led surveillance of vulnerable stretches in the Bishnah sector and security teams secured the contraband before it reached any local recipients.
- Officers have handed the material to a Forensic Science Laboratory team for scientific testing to establish the substance, exact weight and purity.
- Media accounts differ on the seized quantity, reporting roughly between 1.5–2 kg in several reports and about 3 kg in another, and an estimated international-market value remains unverified pending lab results.
- Police say a comprehensive probe has been opened to trace forward links to local handlers and backward links to an alleged cross-border network as drone drops increasingly become a tactic for smuggling.