The Border Security Force of India on Saturday pushed 21 more people into Bangladesh through Kanaighat border in Sylhet without maintaining any legal process.
Local residents and Border Guard Bangladesh personnel told 抖阴精品 that BSF personnel pushed 21 people -- including 12 men, 4 women and 5 children -- at around 8:30am through the Sanatanpunji border point in Kanaighat upazila.
The number of people pushed into Bangladesh by India since May 7 has thus crossed 500, although the BGB and the police were asked to heighten security measures along the border.
India began pushing people into Bangladesh, including Rohingyas and Indian nationals, on May 7 when a war-like situation prevailed between India and Pakistan.
Confirming Saturday鈥檚 push-in incident, the BGB-19 Battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Zubayer Anowar said that the 21 people were detained on charge of illegally entering Bangladesh.
鈥楶rocedures are being carried out to ascertain the identities of the detainees,鈥� he said in the afternoon, adding that they would later be handed over to the Kanaighat police station.
Earlier, on May 14, the BSF had pushed 16 people into Bangladesh through the Aatgram border point in Kanaighat upazila, the Border Guard Bangladesh said.
Dhaka has already requested New Delhi to stop attempts to push people into Bangladesh territory through various border points.
Talking to reporters following the ninth meeting of the advisory council committee on law and order at the secretariat in Dhaka on May 12, 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 had pushed 202 individuals into Bangladesh on May 7 and May 8 through unpopulated areas.
The BGB chief mentioned that among those pushed in were 39 Rohingyas who had previously gone to India from Bangladesh.
