Jammu, May 21 -- Tipped off by a local, Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday seized around 2 kg of heroin suspected to have been dropped by a Pakistani drone near the Indo-Pak International Border in Jammu district.

The consignment was recovered by police teams in Bishnah tehsil following a week-long surveillance operation based on specific intelligence inputs about possible attempts of cross-border narcotics smuggling.

The packet was recovered from Bahadurpur Panchayat in the Bishnah area after a local resident saw a drone hovering over his fields and subsequently winched down a packet before flying away, said a police spokesperson.

On receiving information, teams of the Border Security Force (BSF) and police rushed to the spot and c...