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BSF seizes abandoned Pakistani boat in Punjab

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The Border Security Force (BSF) on Tuesday morning seized a Pakistani boat from river Ravi in Punjab’s Amritsar district. The boat was seized from Tota post area in the district.

Inspector General of BSF Anil Paliwal confirmed the incident and said that nothing was found inside the boat but an investigation has been launched into the matter. However, he added, that boats of fishermen from the neighbouring country sometimes come near the Indian border due to the flow of water.

“A search operation was carried out by the police near Shikar Machhian (in Dera Baba Nanak) village here,” Batala SSP Daljinder Singh Dhillon said on Tuesday.

He said a woman had on Monday claimed to have seen a “man wearing black clothes and carrying a weapon moving in a suspicious manner”. “We immediately launched the search operation which went on during the night as well as today,” Dhillon said. The police used hand-held thermal imaging devices to trace any suspicious movement in the civil areas, the SSP added.

“However, we have not found anything suspicious so far,” he said, adding that the police were acting “immediately” on any information regarding any suspicious movement. “We are considering information on suspicious persons very seriously,” the SSP said, adding that the security personnel were on “high alert” in the backdrop of escalating tension between India and Pakistan.

The ICG ship ‘Samudra Pavak’ had seized another Pakistani boat with nine crew members on board off the coast of Gujarat on October 2. The crew members, along with the boat, were escorted to Porbandar for further investigation.

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