The BSF have arrested three Bangladeshis from Sobhapur village, located on the Indian side near the Bangla border, for allegedly smuggling a banned cough syrup.

Mehboob Alam, 32, Rabiul Islam, 22, and Sayan Sk, 18, were held after 450 bottles of Phensedyl, a banned cough syrup, were seized from their possession late on Thursday night.

The arrested trio are residents of Dudhpara village in the Nawabganj district of Bangladesh. The BSF personnel said they had handed over the three youths to Samserganj police.

BSF sources said the three youths were held late on Thursday night while trying to cross over to Bangladesh with a bag of the banned cough syrup.

Y. Raghuvamshi, the superintendent of police, Jangipur district, said: “The arrested Bangladeshi youths were produced in the additional chief judicial magistrate’s court at Jangipur on Friday and remanded in police custody for five days.”