Army troops guarding the Line of Control (LoC) on Friday 16 Feb opened
fire to bring down Pakistani quadcopters at two different places in Jammu and
Kashmir's Poonch district, officials said.
However, the flying objects returned to the
Pakistan side after briefly hovering over the Indian territory in the
Balnoi-Mendhar and Gulpur sectors, they said.
They said a search operation was launched in both
sectors to ensure there was no dropping of weapons or narcotics by the
quadcopters.
Officials said troops noticed two quadcopters entering the Balnoi area
of Mendhar around 6.30 am and opened fire but the remotely controlled machines
returned.
Similarly, a couple of quadcopters hovering over the Gulpur sector
around the same time returned in the face of firing by Indian troops, they
said.
Earlier on February 12, Army troops had fired on an enemy drone after
picking up its movement in the Mankote area of the Mendhar sector.
Pakistan is using drones to drop narcotics and
weapons in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Jammu and Kashmir Police recently announced a cash reward
of ₹ three lakh to anyone providing information about drones flown
from across the border with the purpose of dropping weapons and narcotics.