BSF holds three Bangladeshis and seizes 19.5 kg of cannabis at border
Border Security Force troops arrested three Bangladeshi nationals trying to cross into India at East Digaltari in Cooch Behar on 24 August 2021 and seized 19.5 kg of cannabis with 45 bottles of phensydyl in overnight border operations. The three were handed over to the Border Guard Bangladesh.
🇮🇳 East Digaltari village, Cooch Behar district, West Bengal, on the India-Bangladesh border · India
Border Security Force troops of the Guwahati Frontier arrested three
Bangladeshi nationals, a man, a woman and a girl, at around 12:45 pm on 24
August 2021 near East Digaltari village in Cooch Behar district.[1][2]The
three were trying to cross the international boundary into India illegally.[1][2]They were handed over to the Border Guard Bangladesh through a flag
meeting.[1][2]
In overnight operations on 24 to 25 August the same troops seized19.5 kg of
cannabis and 45 bottles of phensydyl in Cooch Behar district at the
India-Bangladesh border.[1][2]The BSF said it acted on specific information
and had put its troops on high alert because a state government programme at
Salmara in Assam was expected to draw heavy crowds.[2]The force described
the finds as another success against cross-border smuggling and illegal
infiltration.[1][2]
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