Indian Border Security Force on Wednesday pushed at least 60 more people into Bangladesh through separate bordering areas in Sylhet and Moulvibazar districts amid heightened security measures along the border.
Of them, 16 were pushed into Bangladesh through a bordering point at Karaballa village under the upazila Kanaighat border in Sylhet and 44 others were pushed in through Uttar Shahbajpur point under Borolekha upazila in Moulvibazar.
Border Guard Bangladesh members from the Aatgram outpost under Kanaighat upazila detained the 16 people in the morning after the BSF had pushed them into Bangladesh territory through the borderline along Karaballa village, BGB officials said.
The BSF pushed them through Sylhet border when the BGB was kept on high alert to prevent the push-in attempts by the Indian border force.
BGB 19 Battalion (Jakiganj) commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Zubayer confirmed the incident of pushing the sixteen people into Bangladesh without maintaining any legal channel by the BSF.
He said that the 16 people included eight men, six women and two children.
Referring to the information extracted from the detainees, he said that the detained people had been living in India illegally for a long time and the BSF pushed them into Bangladesh Wednesday morning.
The BGB officer told 抖阴精品 in the evening that the detainees were being interrogated to make sure about their identities and to know relevant information.
鈥楢fter the initial investigation, the detainees will be handed over to Kanaighat police station maintaining proper legal formalities,鈥� he said.
Besides, the BSF also pushed 44 individuals into Bangladesh at about 5:30am on Wednesday through Uttar Shahbajpur point under Borolekha upazila in Moulvibazar.
BGB 52 Battalion commanding officer Mehedi Hasan confirmed the incident and said that the BGB personnel detained the people after they were pushed into Bangladesh from India.
鈥楾he detainees include 13 men, 18 women and 13 children,鈥� he said.
About 300 people including Rohingyas and Indian nationals were pushed into Bangladesh between May 7 and May 11, according to the officials of the law enforcement agencies from bordering districts.
Dhaka has already requested New Delhi to stop any such attempts to push people into Bangladesh territory through different bordering points.
The request was made in a diplomatic communication sent to New Delhi on May 9, a foreign ministry official in Dhaka confirmed.
While talking to reporters following the ninth meeting of the advisory council committee on law and order at the secretariat in Dhaka on Monday, BGB director general Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui said that the BSF had been attempting to push 200-300 people from the Indian side, opposite to Khagrachari, into Bangladesh for the past two days.
He said that the BSF pushed 202 individuals into Bangladesh on May 7 and May 8 through the unpopulated areas.
The BGB chief mentioned that among those pushed in were 39 Rohingyas who had previously gone to India from Bangladesh.
