The Border Security Force of India and the Indian Navy have pushed 1,106 people into Bangladesh through 17 bordering districts since May 7.
On Thursday, 43 people were pushed into Bangladesh through border points in Dinajpur, Kurigram and Sylhet, according to Border Guard Bangladesh officials.聽
Of the 1,028 people detained by the BGB, 118 were pushed into Bangladesh through Khagrachari, 115 through Sylhet, 340 through Moulvibazar, 19 through Habiganj, 16 through Sunamganj, 13 through Cumilla, 39 through Feni, 93 through Kurigram, 78 through Lalmonirhat, 19 through Lalmonirhat, 32 through Panchagrah, 15 through Dinajpur, 17 through Chapainawabganj, 19 through Chuadanga, 30 through Meherpur, 42 through Jhenaidah and 23 through Satkhira, according to BGB headquarters data.
The BGB said that it had lodged written and verbal protests with the BSF by holding several levels of flag meetings over the push-ins.
The Bangladesh border security force said that they were on the highest alert along the Indian border and increased intelligence surveillance and patrols to contain push-ins.聽
On May 9, the BSF and the Indian Navy allegedly pushed 78 people, including three Indian nationals, into Bangladesh through the Mandarbaria area under the Satkhira range of the Sunderbans鈥� west forest zone.
Of the 43 pushed into Bangladesh on Thursday, nine were pushed into the country through a border point in Kurigramm, 13 through a border point in Dinajpur, and the rest 21 through a point in Sylhet without maintaining any legal process, BGB officials said.
India鈥檚 BSF and Navy have begun pushing people, including Indians and Rohingyas, into Bangladesh since May 7.
The BSF pushed nine people into Bangladesh through Dharmapur border under Fulbari upazila in Kurigram district on Thursday morning.
BGB-15 Battalion commanding officer Mehedee Imam said that they detained nine people from Kashipur Bazar at about 6:00am on Thursday.
鈥楢ll of them are Bangladeshis pushed in the country between 4:00am and 4:30am on Thursday,鈥� he said, adding that they were handed over to their families through police.
The BSF pushed 13 people, including nine women, into Bangladesh through Enayetpur border point under Birol upazila in Dinajpur district in the early hours of Thursday.
BGB-42 Battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Abdullah Al Moin said that the BSF pushed the people into Bangladesh between midnight past Wednesday and 2:00am on Thursday.
鈥榃e detained the people at about 4:00am on Thursday. They are in our custody and we are verifying their identities,鈥� he said.
The Border Security Force pushed the rest 21 into Bangladesh through a border point at Beanibazar upazila in Sylhet on Thursday morning.
BGB-52 Battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Mehedi Hasan said that the 21 people, including eight women, eight children and five men, were pushed into Bangladesh through Noagram border point at Muriya union under the Beanibazar upazila.
He said that BGB personnel of the Noagram border outpost detained the 21 people in the morning immediately after they were pushed into the Bangladesh territory by the BSF.
The detainees are residents of Narail and Tungipara districts and they went to India at different times in the past in search of job, the BGB officer said.
鈥楢t the preliminary interrogation, they said that Indian police handed them to the BSF after arresting them from different areas and the BSF personnel pushed them today into Bangladesh through the Beanibazar border in Sylhet,鈥� he said.
He also said that the detainees were handed over to the Beanibazar police station at noon for taking necessary steps in this regard.
Beanibazar police station officer-in-charge Ashraf Uzzaman told 抖阴精品 in the afternoon that they were trying to contact with relatives of the detainees.
Between early Wednesday and Wednesday night, the BSF had flown drones, fired sound grenades, made cocktail explosions and gunshots along the bordering areas with Bangladesh and in the Indian side in the bordering points in Lalmonirhat district.
At about 10:00pm on Wednesday, the BSF exploded cocktails and fired sound grenades in the Indian side along the Bangladesh border, said BGB-35 Battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Hasanur Rahman. 鈥楶ush-in attempts were continued in most of the places,鈥� Hasanur told 抖阴精品 on Thursday.聽
He also acknowledged flying drones by the BSF at the Boraibari border point at about 4:00am on Wednesday.
鈥楴ow the situation is normal. Both sides are maintaining status quo,鈥� he added.
According to Bangladesh authorities, Bangladesh has 4,156 kilometres of border with India, of which some 180 kilometres fall on different water bodies and 79 kilometres on the Sundarbans.
