Chandigarh: Police here have recovered an AK-56 assault rifle and two magazines besides 60 cartridges from a village in Punjab’s border district of Ferozepur on Wednesday.
Following the recovery, a case was registered against an unidentified person and a probe was initiated.
According to reports, the matter came to fore after a farmer, who had gone to spray pesticide in his field at Arifke village, 13km from Ferozepur, on the Mallanwala road, found the rifle and ammunition and alerted the same to the police.
While a probe into the incident is underway, police sources said that it is likely that the consignment was dropped by a drone near the border fence.
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