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BSF handovers to BGB 5 Bangladeshis held in Fulbari border
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) handed over five Bangladeshi citizens who illegally entered India to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) after holding a flag meeting on Saturday evening.
The arrestees were identified as Abul Kalam,25, his wife Shahnaj Begum, son, Shahjalal,5, from Kamalapur village of former enclave Dashiarchara and Nur Jahan Begum,35, and her son Nur Imam,7, from Jokarhat Amtala village of the same upazila.
BGB filed a case against three of the arrestees for crossing borders without passports and handed them over to police while leaving the two children in their parent’s custody.
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Belal Hossain , relative of an arrestee said, they went to India’s Delhi by illegal means through a broker and used to work in a brick kiln there.
While waiting to enter Bangladesh near the border, BSF members of India’s Dhaprahat camp arrested them, he said.
Dhaprahat-192 battalion BSF inspector Vivek Mila handed the arrestees over to BGB-15 Kashipur camp Company Commander Subedar Ramjan Ali in a flag meeting held near international pillar no-942 of Kashipur border around 5pm, Saturday, said the BGB sources.
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Officer-in-Charge of Fulbari police station, Rajib Kumar Ray said the three arrestees were sent to jail Sunday.
Border guards eaxchange sweets and Eid greetings at Hili border
On the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha, border guards of Bangladesh and India exchanged sweets and greetings on Wednesday morning.
Hili CP Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) camp commander Subedar Showkat Ali Molla said that sweets were gifted to the commander of Border Security Force (BSF) on the Indian side fro Joypurhat-10 BGB battalion.
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Commander Ramakant Singh of BSF Hili camp reciprocated by sending sweets as gifts.
During religious and national celebrations, BGB and BSF exchange gifts, greetings and sweets as a tradition with an aim to bolster friendly ties between the two countries, the BGB camp commander said.
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Meanwhile, the BSF camp commander said that "this kind of exchange of sweets and greetings motivates the border guards of both the countries".
Indian border guards demand FIR against 'spy pigeon' from Pakistan
Strange it may appear, but India's border guards have demanded the registration of a police case against a pigeon suspected of being trained to "spy" by Pakistan.
Officials said the pigeon was caught by a Border Security Force (BSF) personnel in the northern Indian state of Punjab, which shares its border with Pakistan, after it found a comfortable perch on his shoulder on Saturday.
This was after the BSF trooper recovered a small piece of paper with a "contact number" that was attached to one of the pigeon's legs.
Senior Punjab Police officer Dhruv Dahiya told the media on Wednesday that they had received a complaint from the BSF personnel and sought legal opinion on his complaint before taking a call on the filing of a first information report (FIR).
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“As the pigeon is a bird, I don’t think an FIR can be registered against it. But we have referred the matter to our legal experts. The number tagged on the pigeon’s leg is being analysed," he said.
This is not the first time that a pigeon flying from Pakistan has been caught by Indian authorities and labeled as a spy.
Last year too, a pigeon carrying a "coded message" was caught by villagers in Indian-controlled Kashmir and handed over to the local authorities. In October 2016 too, a pigeon was caught with a note threatening Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
India and Pakistan are arch-rivals and have fought at least three major wars over the disputed region of Kashmir in the past 65 years.
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Indian teen shot by BSF handed over by BGB
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has handed over the Indian teenager who crossed into Bangladesh through Kurigram's Fulbari border after being shot by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Saturday.
The BGB invited the BSF to a flag meeting at Fulbari's Anantapur border on Sunday. During the meeting, the BGB handed over Milon Miah, 18, to members of the BSF 192 Battalion Jhikri camp of Cooch Behar.
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Lieutenant Colonel SM Touhidul Alam, commanding officer of Lalmonirhat 15 BGB Battalion, confirmed this to UNB.
Milon was handed over to BSF after he was provided treatment at Kurigram General Hospital and his condition became stable.
On Saturday, he entered Bangladesh after sustaining a bullet wound during the election violence in the Cooch Bihar of India. The teenager is from Sahebganj of the district.
As the wounded Milon went to his maternal grandfather's house in Kurigram's Nageshwari upazila, police detained him from there and took him to the hospital. He was later handed over to the BGB as his condition became stable.
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Towhidul Alam said Milon was shot as he went out during a curfew enforced by the Indian government.
BSF won't let BGB build mosque at 200-year-old site
A flag meeting has been held between the border guards of Bangladesh and India in the wake of tensions over the construction of a new mosque next to a 200-year-old mosque in the Gajukata border area of Beanibazar upazila in Sylhet. The BGB-BSF flag meeting was held at Sutarkandi ICP at 5pm on Tuesday (March 23, 2021).
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BGB 52 Battalion Commander Lt. Colonel Shah Alam Siddiqui led the BGB delegation while BSF 7 Battalion Commander Captain BS Minhaj led the BSF side.
At the end of the meeting, Battalion Commander Colonel Md. Shah Alam Siddiqui told reporters that under the 1975 agreement, Indian forces could not enter 150 yards of the zero line and provide any kind of barrier. They violated the border law by blocking the construction of a 200-year-old mosque within 150 yards of No Man's Land. We have strongly protested against this.
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He said removal of BSF bunkers and continuation of the construction work of the mosque were discussed in the meeting. However, the BSF bunkers were not removed till filing this report at 8 pm.
The Lt. Colonel also added that there will be more flag meetings. He said the BGB was on alert in the border area in the situation that arose.
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It has been learnt that BSF obstructed the construction work of this mosque once before. The situation was resolved in a single flag meeting at that time.
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Arms, valuables, drugs worth Tk 120 crore seized from Benapole in 2020
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