How GPS Trackers Are Guiding Drones To Smuggle Drugs, Weapons Across Punjab

GPS tracking devices are emerging as an important link in the alleged cross-border smuggling network operating along Punjab's international border, where drone-dropped consignments of heroin and other narcotics are allegedly being retrieved through a network of local operatives acting on the directions of foreign-based handlers.A major crackdown by Amritsar Rural Police, in a joint operation with central agencies and the BSF, has now exposed multiple arms and drug trafficking modules allegedly using drones, tracking devices and local contacts to facilitate the movement of illegal weapons and narcotics.The recovery of a GPS tracking device along with a 7.904-kg heroin consignment near village Awan Lakha Singh has brought the technology-driven mechanism under the scanner.

The device is suspected to have been used to help locate the precise spot where a consignment was dropped, enabling local operatives to retrieve it from the border area.The alleged operation follows a multi-layered pattern.