Bangladesh border guards, BSF accuse each other of push-in attempts

BGB, the borderline patrolling unit of Bangladesh, claimed connected Friday that India’s BSF “made aggregate attempts to propulsion successful radical into Bangladeshi territory successful the aboriginal hours of Thursday and Friday”.In an authoritative statement, Border Guard Bangladesh further pointed retired to alleged incidents adjacent their areas specified arsenic Lalmonirhat and Panchagarh (both adjacent to Bengal’s Cooch Behar district), Naogaon (near South Dinajpur and Malda districts) and Chapainawabganj (near Malda and Murshidabad districts) successful the past 24 hours and said that “over 70” radical were stopped astatine the zero-line oregon the no-man’s onshore adjacent the border.

“They are presently stranded there,” said Lt Col Mehedi Imam, commanding serviceman of BGB’s 15 Lalmonirhat battalion. TOI contacted astatine slightest 3 nationalist narration officers of BSF for a effect to these circumstantial BGB allegations, with nary reply truthful far.This came adjacent arsenic BSF connected Friday said they person thwarted an alleged BGB effort “to assistance 10 Bangladeshi nationals, including women and children, infiltrate into India astatine Panishala successful Cooch Behar’s Mekhliganj area”.

BSF is said to person “soon deployed a fewer other companies to guarantee these radical could not participate Indian territory”. BGB refuted BSF’s claims.10 ‘disowned people’ stuck connected Bangladesh borderThe latest incidental comes astatine a clip erstwhile West Bengal govt has taken respective measures to “identify and deport Bangladeshis illegally staying successful the state”.A video, meanwhile, surfaced wherever BSF and BGB unit could beryllium purportedly seen talking astir the contented successful beforehand of immoderate stranded people.

As some BSF and BGB “disowned them”, the 10 radical continued to stay stranded adjacent the border. A emblem gathering was tried, but BGB reportedly refused to beryllium portion of it. BSF has present intensified patrolling successful the area.On its part, BGB said that successful Naogaon 17 people, including 5 children, were stopped astatine the zero enactment astir 7.30am connected Friday. And successful Lalmonirhat, 33 radical were stopped by them astatine 3 places — Hatibandha, Patgram and Aditmari — and its unit rushed to the spot.BGB further alleged that successful a akin development, 28 people, including 10 women and six children, were stopped astatine zero enactment astatine Chapainawabganj astir 3am connected Thursday. A BGB connection further said that “the unit is connected precocious alert to forestall immoderate infiltration oregon push-in attempts”. Incidentally, amid the latest “border incidents”, BGB brass is scheduled to conscionable their BSF counterparts successful the 57th India-Bangladesh Border Coordination gathering to beryllium held successful Delhi from June 8 to 11.