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  • Cattle smuggling case: CBI files charge sheet against BSF Commandant Satish Kumar, six others

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: The CBI on Monday filed a charge sheet against BSF Commandant Satish Kumar and six others for their alleged involvement in a cattle smuggling racket operating at the India-Bangladesh border, officials said.

    The agency had taken over the case on September 21, 2020.

    The charge sheet has been filed against Kumar, the then Commandant of 36 Battalion BSF, Enamul Haque, Anarul Seikh, Golam Mustafa Taniya Sanyal, Badal Krishna Sanyal and Rashida Bibi, the officials said.

    In the charge sheet filed before a special court in West Bengal’s Asansol, the CBI alleged that Haque was the mastermind of the illegal cattle trade and was assisted by two other accused in connivance with Kumar who was deployed at Murshidabad and Maldah.

    “Evidence has been found during investigation regarding the alleged illegal cross-border selling of cattle, the related movement, delivery and use of ill-gotten money,” CBI spokesperson RC Joshi said.

    He alleged that three other accused assisted and showed fictitious business activities to regularise the ill-gotten money.

    “Searches were conducted at around 34 locations across the country at the premises of the accused. Then Commandant, BSF and a private person were arrested during the course of investigation,” Joshi said.

    “The said private person continues to be in judicial custody at the time of submission of the charge sheet,” he added.

  • Intruder killed by BSF; Pakistani troops target forward posts in Kathua

    By PTI
    JAMMU/NEW DELHI: A Pakistani intruder was shot dead by the Border Security Force (BSF) along the India-Pakistan international border in Jammu on Monday, officials said.

    The incident took place near the Chak Faquira border post (border pillar no 64) in the Samba sector around 9:45 am, they said.

    “Despite repeated warnings, the intruder kept moving towards the border fence and was fired upon by BSF troops. The dead body of one Pakistani intruder has been recovered,” a BSF spokesperson said.

    The spot where the body was found is around 40 metres from the International Border on the Indian side, the officials said.

    Meanwhile, Pakistani Rangers opened fire on forward posts and villages along the International Border in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Monday.

    The firing from across the border in Karol Krishna border outpost area started around 10:20 pm Sunday, prompting strong retaliation by the Border Security Force (BSF), the officials said.

    They said the cross-border firing between the two sides continued till 5 am but there was no report of any damage on the Indian side.

  • Youth spotted at lover’s house in Barmer lands in Pakistan prison 

    Express News Service
    JAIPUR: Fear is no mean motivator, for it vies with love to push the frontiers of capacity. If it was love that made this 20-year-old to travel 200 km to meet his girlfriend, it was the fear of getting caught that pushed him across the border into a Pakistan jail, where he is currently cooling his heels.

    The local police were racking their brains to trace the whereabouts of the youth, who had been missing since the night of November 5 last. According to sources, he had been sent to work at Jodhpur by his family. On November 5, he reached Barmer and landed at his girlfriend’s house.

    However, he was spotted while entering the house by the girl’s family. The youth made a run for it, but had gone missing after that.  Details of his whereabouts emerged when the Pakistan Rangers and the Border Security Force (BSF) held a meeting on November 12 on the repatriation of some goats and sheep that had inadvertently crossed into India.

    It was during this discussion that the Rangers passed information to their Indian counterparts about a Rajasthan youth nabbed by them on November 6. The Bijraad police heaved a sigh of relief after the BSF passed on the information to them recently. 

    Bijraad police station officer said that the youth’s father had lodged a missing complaint on November 16, and they had been searching for him in vain. “We were nonplussed as there were evidence that the youth had visited his girlfriend’s house, but there was no clue of him after that,” the official said.

    While the goats and sheep were sent back to Pakistan, call on the youth’s repatriation will be taken by the Pakistan High Commission. Rajasthan shares a 1,041-km border with Pakistan. This brorder is patrolled by the BSF. How the youth managed to evade the BSF eyes is anybody’s guess. However, the local police can now call off their wild goose hunt. 

  • BSF threatening voters in border areas: TMC complains to CEC

    The full bench of the ECI arrived in West Bengal on Wednesday evening on a two-day visit ahead of the assembly polls.

  • BSF uncovers 150 metre-long tunnel in Samba district along Pakistan border

    Express News Service
    SRINAGAR: The Border Security Force (BSF) on Wednesday found a tunnel along the International Border (IB) in Samba district, with its mouth opening on the Pakistan side. Investigations are on to find out whether the 150 metre-long, 30 metre-deep tunnel was used by infiltrators, given all passes have been blocked due to the heavy snowfall in the region. The officials recovered made-in-Karachi sandbags, pointing towards connivance of the Pakistan establishment.

    BSF men entering a tunnel | PTIInspector General BSF, Jammu, N S Jamwal said his men detected the tunnel during an anti-tunnel drive at Bobiyan village along the border with Pakistan in Samba district. The drive was launched based on intelligence reports on the possibility of tunnels along the border in the districts of Samba and Kathua. Officials said the diameter of the tunnel spanned two-three feet.

    The Karachi-made sandbags and the tunnel’s mouth opening in Pakistan’s territory indicated the involvement of Pakistan establishment, Jamwal said. When asked if the tunnel was newly-dug, Jamwal said, “It seems to be an old tunnel. The condition of the sandbags indicates it is not newly dug.” The BSF IG said that investigations were underway to ascertain if the tunnel was used recently.

    A BSF official said that after the recent heavy snowfall closed all infiltration passes to Kashmir, Pakistani troops were trying to push armed militants into J&K through tunnels in Jammu. However, he said that the border guards were equipped to meet any challenge, with the officials intensifying the anti-tunnel drive along the IB in Jammu region.

  • BSF detects cross-border tunnel in Jammu & Kashmir’s Kathua 

    By PTI
    JAMMU: The Border Security Force (BSF) on Wednesday detected a tunnel beneath the International Border in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.

    The tunnel constructed from across the border to facilitate infiltration of terrorists was detected by BSF troops in Bobiyaan village during an operation this morning, the officials said.

    Senior BSF and police officers have rushed to the spot.

    Further details are awaited.

  • BSF hands over to six Pakistani youths who crossed border inadvertently

    By PTI
    ATTARI: The Border Security Force on Saturday handed over six Pakistani youths, who had “inadvertently” crossed over to the Indian side from along the international border in Punjab, to the Pakistan Rangers.

    A protest was lodged with the Pakistan Rangers over the incident and the youngsters were sent back at around 5:30 pm, the border guarding force said.

    The six youths, in the age group of 14-25 years and residents of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, were nabbed by a BSF patrol from near the Pul Moran border post in Amritsar around 5 pm on Friday.

    “During questioning, it came to notice that they had crossed over to the Indian territory inadvertently. Nothing objectionable was recovered from them,” the force said in a statement.

    The Border Security Force (BSF) said as the youths were “inadvertent border crossers”, it was decided to hand them to the Pakistani authorities on “humanitarian grounds”.

    The border force, local police and central intelligence agencies had earlier grilled the youths.

  • BSF nabs six Pakistani men from Punjab border

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: The Border Security Force on Friday apprehended six Pakistani youths from the area along the India-Pakistan international border in Punjab, official sources said.

    All those nabbed are aged between 20 and 21 years.

    They were apprehended from the border area in Amritsar around 5 PM, they said.

    The six youths, the sources said, are currently being interrogated by a joint team of security and intelligence agencies to ascertain if they reached the border inadvertently or had some ulterior motive.

    More details are awaited.

  • BSF apprehends 15 infiltrators

    By PTI
    KOLKATA: Fifteen infiltrators, including 12 Bangladeshis, have been apprehended by the Border Security Force while they were trying to cross the international border in West Bengal, a statement issued by the paramilitary force said on Sunday.

    Five persons, four Bangladeshis and one Indian national were apprehended on January 2 early morning at Ramnagar outpost in West Bengal’s Nadia district, it said.

    The rest – including eight Bangladeshis – were nabbed at other points along south Bengal frontier by BSF on the same day while either trying to enter this side or trying to cross over to Bangladesh.

    Seven Bangladeshis were handed over to BGB by BSF during flag meetings at different Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) outposts as a goodwill gesture later on January 2, the statement added.

  • Pakistan traces Rajasthan, Gujarat borders for infiltration in 2020: report

    In the year 2020, Pakistan tried several routes of infiltration apart from sending terrorists through the borders in Jammu and Kashmir or Punjab. According to the Border Security Force (BSF), efforts were made by Pakistan to infiltrate the terrorists from the borders of Gujarat and Rajasthan into the Indian border.

    The data compiled by the BSF also states that the number of intrusions has increased. Last year, there were no incidents of infiltration attempts from the Gujarat and Rajasthan borders recorded by the BSF until the first week of November. Interestingly, the Kashmir Frontier of the BSF has recorded only one intrusion compared to the previous year, where November By the first week of the year there were 4 incursions.

    This year, the BSF royalty and the Gujarat Frontier have recorded incursions in August and September. Last year, no such incident was reported in the same period, ”said a senior BSF official.