KOLKATA: The South Bengal Frontier of the Border Security Force BSF ), on Thursday, seized a country-made pistol and several packets of a brown powder, suspected to be narcotics , from close to the Indo-Bangladesh border in the Behrampore sector of Murshidabad. The powder in the four packets weighed nearly 176 grams. Troops of the 141Bn BSF, posted at the Bousmari BOP, received a tip-off regarding an attempt to smuggle items across the International Border (IB) around 1.30 pm. A search was launched at the Bousmari Char and the pistol and packets were found hidden under some bushes near a kachcha track," a BSF official said.The illegal weapon and packets of suspected narcotics have been handed over to the Hugalberia police station for necessary legal action.