Punjab: Border Security Force shot dead an unidentified person entering Indian territory from Pakistan

Amritsar: According to a police official on Monday, an unnamed individual who was entering India from Pakistan was shot down by Border Security Forces. On Monday morning, the incident happened close to a BSF station in Amritsar, Punjab. When the guy refused to halt after being told to, the BSF officers opened fire.

Anjala Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Gurvinder Singh told the media report, “This morning, a man was entering India from Pakistan near a BSF post. The BSF officers asked him to stop, but he refused, and the man was killed by BSF fire.”

DSP Singh further added, “BSF gave us the body, which is there in the civil hospital for postmortem, and we will keep it there for 72 hours and then further procedures will be followed.”

“We are now inspecting the phone that we found. He has not yet been recognized,” he said.

Earlier in the day, PRO, BSF, said in a statement, “On 03rd Mar’ 2025, during the morning hours, alert BSF troops on duty observed suspicious movement of a Pakistani intruder, who surreptitiously crossed the IB (International Boundary) and started approaching the border security fence, taking advantage of undulating ground and wheat crops, in the border area near Village-Kotrazda of district Amritsar.”

The PRO also said that the legal procedures for delivering the deceased Pak intruder’s corpse to the Ramdas police station are being completed.

In an unrelenting campaign against cross-border smuggling, BSF Punjab apprehended six Pakistani drones earlier on February 28. Over the course of the previous four days, they also confiscated 2.628 kg of heroin, two weapons, and four magazines. These seizures, which were made during many operations along the Punjab border, the BSF stated, have given a serious blow to anti-national elements trying to smuggle drugs and weapons into India.
Two Tisas Zigana handguns, made in Türkiye, were found among the confiscations in a sugarcane field in the Amritsar hamlet of Ballarhwal.

In the districts of Gurdaspur and Amritsar, drones carrying heroin shipments were also stopped; the packages were wrapped in yellow sticky tape and equipped with retrieving tools. These measures, according to BSF Punjab, underscore the agency’s commitment to protecting the country from smuggling and cross-border threats.