The Border Security Force (BSF) is set to conduct a detailed analysis of a drone marked “Made in China” that was recently discovered near the India-Bangladesh border, officials confirmed on Saturday. According to a BSF official, the Tripura Police will first hand over the drone, which features two high-resolution cameras, to the BSF. It will then be sent to the BSF headquarters in Delhi for a comprehensive study.
A coordination meeting between BSF and police officials took place on Friday. The drone was initially sent to the state forensic science laboratory for examination, after which it will be transferred to the BSF. The lightweight drone, weighing 915 grams, was discovered on Friday by a young boy in a paddy field about 650 metres from the Durgabari Border Outpost. The boy took it home and cleaned it before his family notified the Tripura Police, who took custody of it.
The BSF has not yet determined the drone’s origin or how it entered Indian territory. Since internal unrest began in Bangladesh in mid-2024, and the Awami League government’s fall in August that year, the BSF has heightened surveillance along Tripura’s 856-km border with Bangladesh to curb cross-border threats.
