Amritsar, Mar 24 (PTI) Nearly three kg of heroin was recovered from a farmer and his labourer by the BSF troops here on Thursday, according to an official release.

During a checking at the border fence gate in the Amritsar sector, the Border Security Force (BSF) troops recovered a packet of heroin weighing 2.940 kg from a farmer and his labourer.

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They were returning from their farm, according to the release.

Farmers, who have farmland beyond the barbed fencing on the India-Pakistan border, are granted special permission to go there to cultivate their land.

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