Border Safety Power (BSF) personnel patrol at Line of Management (LOC) on Wednesday (October 16, 2024).
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The Border Safety Power foiled an try by 4 Bangladeshis to illegally enter India, arresting them at a border outpost in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, an offical assertion stated on Wednesday. The Bangladeshis allegedly supposed to journey to Chennai to search out work.

BSF personnel from the 73rd Battalion of the South Bengal Frontier division, stationed on the Bamanabad Border Outpost, noticed suspicious actions close to the worldwide border at roughly 3:35 p.m. on Tuesday (October 15, 2024).

They noticed 5 folks making an attempt to cross from Bangladesh into Indian territory, of which 4 have been Bangladeshi residents carrying faux Aadhaar playing cards. The fifth particular person was an Indian tout who was allegedly facilitating their motion throughout the border.

After an alarm was raised, the group of 5 tried to drive their method into Indian territory, scattering and making an attempt to cover within the tall grass. Quickly after Fast Response Groups have been deployed, all 5 have been arrested and handed over to the Raninagar police station for additional authorized motion.

‘Heading to Chennai’

Throughout additional questioning on the Bamanabad outpost, the Indian tout allegedly confessed that he had arrived on the worldwide border on Tuesday, October 15 to assist the Bangladeshi nationals cross into Indian territory. The 4 unlawful immigrants, who have been residents of the Godagari sub-district of Bangladesh’s Rajshahi, had allegedly deliberate to journey to Chennai to work as labourers and had promised to pay the Indian smuggler ₹4,000 per particular person after efficiently getting into India.

The 4 additionally alleged that their faux Indian identification paperwork have been sourced by a Bangladeshi tout based mostly in Godagari, for 1,000 Bangladeshi taka per head.

In an identical incident two weeks in the past, two Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested by the BSF on the Kakmarichar border outpost on October 2 for illegally getting into Indian territory. Just a few hours later, two Indians have been arrested by Border Guards Bangladesh on the identical outpost on the opposite facet of the worldwide border.