India continues to push people into Bangladesh through different borders as 92 more people were pushed across the border between Saturday and Sunday in Satkhira and Chuadanga.
The push-in began on May 7 when 123 people were forced to enter Bangladesh from the Indian side through different border points in Khagrachari and Kurigram districts amid escalating tensions between India and Pakistan.
The push-in from the Indian side could not be stopped despite the Border Guard Bangladesh has increased patrols to resist such incidents and India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire on Saturday with the United States mediating.聽聽
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, meanwhile on Sunday, slammed the interim government, saying that it remained silent over India鈥檚 pushing people into Bangladesh.聽
抖阴精品 correspondent in Satkhira reported that the Indian Border Security Force on Saturday allegedly pushed 78 people into聽 Bangladesh through Mandarbaria under the Satkhira range in the western part of Sundarban forest.
The Forest Department handed over all of them to the Bangladesh Coast Guard. They were taken to the Mongla Coast Guard office on Sunday morning, said Coast Guard and forest department officials.
Forest department officials said that most of the 78 people were sick with torture marks on their body, while one of them had a broken arm.聽
Satkhira range assistant forest conservator Habibul Islam confirmed that they had handed over the whole group to the coast guard.
鈥楾hey became sick from starving for days,鈥� he added.
When contacted, Coast Guard media wing said that they had sent the entire group to the Shyamnagar police station.
The BGB, meanwhile, detained 14 people, including women and children, for illegally entering Bangladesh from India through Jibannagar border in Chuadanga early Sunday, the United News of Bangladesh reported.
A patrol team at the Jibannagar border outpost under Maheshpur 58 BGB Battalion in a drive conducted at about 4:30am to detain them.
According to the UNB report, during primary interrogation, the detainees told the BGB that they went to India illegally six months ago in search of job, but returned to Bangladesh. They failed to show any valid documents.
Later, the BGB handed them over to the Jibannagar police.
Jibannagar police officer-in-charge Md Mamun Hossain Biswas said that the BGB handed over to them the 14 intruders about Sunday noon.
Legal procedures were underway, he said.
抖阴精品 could not reach BGB spokesperson and deputy director general for communications Colonel Mohammad Shariful Islam over phone for comment on the Jibannagar incident.
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Sunday castigated India for pushing its citizens into Bangladesh and also criticised the interim government for remaining silent, accusing it of following Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 policy.
鈥業ndia is pushing its people through borders, including Satkhira, Kurigram, Khagrachari and Moulvibazar borders today. This is a great injustice being done by the neighbouring country,鈥� the UNB quoted him as saying while addressing a rally organised by the Bangladesh Nationalist Buddhist Forum in front of the Jatiya Press Club marking Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community.
Rizvi, the BNP senior joint secretary general, voiced concern that the government was not lodging a strong protest against the unfair move by India.
鈥楾he interim government has not said a single word about this. Where is Khoda Bakhsh, where is the home affairs adviser鈥檚 office and where is the government? Why is the government not taking any action on this?鈥� he said.
On Thursday, the BGB detained 25 people鈥�15 of them in Moulvibazar and 10 in Dinajpur鈥攁mid tensions gripped the country鈥檚 border areas as armed clash broke out between India and Pakistan broke out on May 7 Wednesday.
Bangladesh and India share over 4,000-kilometre international border, the fifth-longest land border in the world, comprising 262km with the Indian state of Assam, 856km with Tripura, 318km with Mizoram, 443km with Meghalaya, and 2,217km with the state of West Bengal.