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BSF arrests 14 Bangladeshi nationals and seizes contraband astatine India-Bangladesh border.
The Border Security Force (BSF) nabbed 14 Bangladeshi nationals for illegally entering the state successful the week since January 26, information officials said successful Agartala connected Saturday. It besides arrested 2 Indian quality traffickers during the aforesaid period.
A elder BSF authoritative informed that the bureau has successfully thwarted respective attempts of infiltration, exfiltration, and trans-border smuggling successful caller days.
“(A) important quantity of narcotics, sugar, cattle, and different contraband items worthy Rs 2.5 crore has been seized,” the authoritative further said.
He besides said the BSF on with the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) conducted astir 80 coordinated patrols from January 26 onwards.
Moreover, BSF held implicit 40 colony coordination meetings successful borderline areas to code the concerns of the section population.
In aggregate associated operations with sister agencies, BSF carried retired an extended cannabis demolition thrust successful distant areas, destroying implicit 1 lakh matured plants cultivated illegally connected astir 60 acres of land.
Earlier connected January 15, borderline information unit foiled aggregate attempts of smuggling and infiltration successful Tripura.
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BSF unit from Border Out Posts (BOP) nether Sonamura and Boxanagar constabulary stations successful Sepahijala districts of Tripura fired six rounds of non-lethal ammunition astatine smugglers trying to transverse the India-Bangladesh planetary borderline and seized a immense consignment of sugar, narcotics, and different contraband items.
On January 12, a large cross-border smuggling effort was foiled successful Tripura’s Sepahijala district, acknowledgment to BSF Mahila Praharis.
Tripura shares an 856-km-long planetary borderline with Bangladesh, parts of which are inactive unfenced.
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