BGB-BSF hold sector commander meeting

Staff Reporter :

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and India’s Border Security Force (BSF) have jointly agreed that none, except the Bangladeshi and Indian farmers, will be allowed to enter within 150 yards of the Chapainawabganj border.

The decision was taken at a meeting held between the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and the Border Security Force (BSF) in the conference room of the Sonamasjid BOP in Chapainawabganj on Wednesday.

The meeting reached an agreement to restrict access within 150 yards of the border on both sides, allowing only farmers in the area.

59 BGB Battalion confirmed this in a press release on Wednesday evening.
The meeting also called upon people of both sides not to spread any rumor on any issue, the BGB official said, adding that from now on, the BGB and the BSF will deal with incidents like smuggling and illegal instruction together.

Colonel Md Imran Ibn A Rauf, sector commander of the Rajshahi Sector of the BGB and DIG Arun Kumar Gautam, sector commander of the Malda Sector of the BSF, led their respective sides during the meeting.

Earlier, tensions between the two forces recently escalated due to BSF’s alleged construction of a barbed wire fence near the zero line at Chouka border on 7 January and the felling of mango trees in Bangladesh by Indian nationals near the Chouka and Kiranganj border areas on 18 January.