
A judicial magistrate court in Sylhet sent a leader of Swechchhasebak League, the volunteer organisation of the Awami League, and one of his associates to jail on Sunday, a day after they were handed over to the Border Guard Bangladesh by the Indian Border Security Force.
The BSF members detained Mokhlesur Rahman, Swechchhasebak League’s social welfare affairs assistant secretary and a resident of Bhanga upazila in Faridpur district, and Abul Kalam Azad of Lakhnaut village under Goainghat upazila in Sylhet, on Saturday after they had trespassed into India through Sylhet border, the police said.
BGB 48 Battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Md Saiful Islam said that the BSF detained the duo after they had entered India illegally and handed them over to the BGB personnel Saturday afternoon after a flag meeting between the BGB and the BSF at the Goainghat border.
Goainghat police station officer-in-charge Sarker Md Tofayel Ahmed told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· that the BGB personnel handed the duo over to the police station Saturday evening.
He, referring to the arrestees, said that Abul Kalam had assisted Mokhlesur as a guide to enter India through the Goainghat border.
‘The arrestees were produced before a judicial magistrate court on Sunday after filing a case against them for illegally entering India and the court ordered to send them to jail,’ the police officer said.
He said that Mokhlesur was wanted in four cases filed with different police stations in Faridpur.