The Border Guard Bangladesh has detained 10 Bangladeshis on charges of illegally crossing the border at Maheshpur in Jhenaidah.
Among the detained are one woman and two children.
They were detained during separate operations conducted late Tuesday night and at various times on Wednesday, according to a press release issued by Maheshpur 58 BGB Battalion assistant director Munshi Imdadur Rahman.
In addition, the BGB recovered 59 bottles of Indian Phensedyl in a separate operation carried out by the Uthali Border outpost.
Those detained are Mukul Hossain, 44, son of Nazrul Islam of Kusumpur village under Maheshpur; Ajay Kumar Hawlader, 37, of Burmajumdar village under Betagi in Barguna; Ripon Mridha, 28, son of Nobokumar Mridha of Latenga village under Kotalipara in Gopalganj; Sumoti Biswas, 24, son of Sumanto Biswas of Borashi village in Gopalganj Sadar; Jayanta Biswas, 25, son of Jagadish Biswas of Raghunathpur village in the same area; Yusuf Gani, 54, of Sarkari Ghona village under Pekua in Cox鈥檚 Bazar; and Nur Alam, 26, son of Abdul Manik of Maiarchar village in Sylhet.
According to BGB, at around 9:45pm on Tuesday night, members of the Kusumpur BOP under Maheshpur 58 BGB Battalion conducted an operation in the Chapathala border area, detaining a local broker and a woman.
Later, around 1:30pm on Wednesday, BGB personnel from Matila BOP arrested two people who had entered Bangladesh illegally from India in a separate raid.
In another operation, BGB members from Baghdanga BOP detained six more individuals, including two children, who were reportedly attempting to cross the border illegally into India. The detainees were handed over to Maheshpur police station.
Maheshpur police officer-in-charge Nazrul Islam said that the detained children will be sent to the Justice and Care Centre in Jashore. 鈥楲egal proceedings are underway to file cases against the remaining detainees and present them before the court.鈥�
