BGB Arrests BSF Intruders In Benapole

Two BSF personnel have been arrested from the Bangladesh-India border in Daulatpur area of Benapole, Jessore. The arrests were made in Thursday afternoon.



The troops have been identified as Vijay Singh and M.K. Ravat, both carrying Indian manufactured INSAS rifles, copy of the Belgian FN FAL semi automatic rifles. The rifles were loaded with ammunition and were carrying BSF serial numbers 302 and 338.


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M.K. Ravat and Vijay Singh, held by Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) breaching into Jessore.

As this report was being written, negotiation between the two border security forces was underway to handover the Indian armed troops, who were found to have breached into the Bangladeshi territory.



Daulatpur frontier in Jessore proved to be fatal for the Bangladeshi nationals as at least eight Bangladeshis were shot to death by the Indian border security forces this year.



Arrests of the Bangladeshis in the frontier is rare as almost all of the caught in BSF patrols get shot to death, most of them while being inside Bangladeshi territory.


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Two BDR personnel, Hannan Sarker and Krishnapada Saha, were gunned down in Durlabhpur border of Chapainawabganj district in July 2008 by BSF assailants breaching some 1300 yards into Bangladesh in the same manner the two did on Thursday before getting caught.

Illegal bilateral trades between Bangladeshi and Indian nationals at the frontier make it one of the most disturbed border in the region, where BSF mostly conclude cases by shooting Bangladeshi nationals.



A recent resolution by the Indian government made their border guards carry non-lethal weapons, which also did not stop the killing as three Bangladeshis died by stoning since this May.



However the weapons recovered from the breaching BSF personnel, a licensed and copied version of the famous Belgian riffle, were found to be able to kill.



Some 1,000 Bangladeshis were killed by shooting or torture or both in hands of the Indian BSF in last eleven years, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International mention in their separate records.