The BSF posted at the India-Bangladesh border in north Bengal nabbed four Bangladeshis and gunned down another in different locations on Wednesday.
According to BSF sources, troops of the 15th battalion of the BSF posted at the Mahadev border outpost in Jalpaiguri acted on information and nabbed four Bangladeshis from Dholapara, a village near the border.
The quartet, BSF officials said, had hired an e-rickshaw and was on their way to Haldibari. Those intercepted have been identified as Nimai Chandra Barman and Sanatan Roy from Thakurgaon district, Paritosh Roy of Panchgarh and Malin Chandra Roy of Nilphamari district respectively.
Four cell phones and some Bangladeshi Taka were recovered from their possession. As a goodwill gesture, they were handed over to Border Guard Bangladesh through a flag meeting so that they could return to their homeland.
In North Dinajpur, BSF troops posted in theChainagar area, under the jurisdiction of Hemtabad police station, gunned down a Bangladeshi resident on Wednesday night.
Police sources said on Wednesday night, a group of Bangladeshis tried to infiltrate India. Some of them desperately tried to climb the fence to enter India as the on-duty BSF personnel asked them to return to their country. This made the BSF open fire. The bullet hit one of them and he fell on the spot while others fled. The BSF shifted him to the state general hospital in Kaliaganj where doctors pronounced him dead.
A team from Hemtabad police station visited the spot. Police are trying to identify the deceased, sources said.
ADG visit
Ravi Gandhi, the additional director general, of the Eastern Command of the BSF, visited the India-Bangladesh border on Thursday. He was accompanied by Sooryakant Sharma, inspector general of the north Bengal frontier of BSF.
Gandhi, who is also heading the five-member committee formed by the Union home ministry to monitor the situation in Bangladesh and the safety of Indians staying in the neighbouring country, visited some border outposts and unfenced areas and interacted with the local people, sources said.