BIG Breakthrough For BSF: Ladies Troopers Foil Smuggling Bid Alongside India-Bangladesh Border

Agartala: The ladies troopers of the Border Safety Power (BSF) on Sunday opened hearth and efficiently foiled a significant try of smuggling of contrabands alongside the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura, officers mentioned. 

A BSF spokesperson mentioned that the Mahila Praharis of BSF fired two rounds from their deadly weapons in compelling circumstances when a big group of smugglers armed with sharp-edged weapons forcibly tried to hold out smuggling of contrabands alongside the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura’s Sepahijala district.

“The alert Mahila Praharis successfully foiled the foremost try of smuggling within the BOP Ashabari space and an enormous amount of sugar and different contrabands had been recovered,” the spokesman mentioned.

He mentioned that as a part of the familiarisation effort, Inspector Normal (IG) of BSF’s Tripura frontier Ashwani Kumar Sharma visited Built-in Verify Publish in Manughat and offered a fruit basket to the troops of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).

The BSF IG as a part of his three-day border go to in Unakoti and Dhalai districts in northern Tripura reviewed operational preparedness of the border guarding forces. The spokesman mentioned that Sharma, who lately took over the cost of Tripura frontier of BSF, was briefed by the battalion commanders on the present situation of the border.

Addressing the BSF troopers throughout Sainik Sammelan at BOP Morachera, the IG lauded their relentless efforts whereas emphasising the should be alert in view of the prevailing state of affairs alongside the India-Bangladesh border.

In one other operation on Saturday, BSF troops of BOP Gaurnagar Khowai district apprehended three Bangladeshi nationals whereas they had been attempting to illegally cross over to Bangladesh from India.

Apprehended Bangladeshi nationals are residents of Brahmanbaria district of the neighbouring nation. Throughout questioning by BSF, the intruders revealed the id of Indian tout and Bangladeshi tout concerned in facilitating crossing of border.

As well as adopting non-lethal technique, BSF troops efficiently foiled a number of makes an attempt of infiltration and smuggling, rescued 10 cattle, seized 1,000 kg of sugar, 16 kg ganja, enormous amount of clothes objects, medicines and different contraband value greater than Rs 50 lakh.

The spokesperson mentioned that BSF is sustaining a excessive stage of alertness on the worldwide border to stop infiltration and trans border crimes. He mentioned that after the Bangladesh unrest started in June-July, the BSF has intensified its domination and operations alongside the 856-km India-Bangladesh border in Tripura to stop infiltration, exfiltration, and trans-border crimes together with smuggling of contraband.

Tripura, which is surrounded by Bangladesh on three sides, elements of that are nonetheless unfenced in patches as a result of native disputes on land and demarcation-related points. The BSF alone final yr arrested 55 Rohingya migrants, 620 Bangladeshi nationals and 260 Indian nationals together with human traffickers in varied operations.