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Abducted BGB man still with BSF
Fri, Jan 20th, 2012 8:22 pm
Comilla, Jan 20 (bdnews24.com) The Bangladeshi border guard, abducted by Indian 'smugglers' at Comilla border, is still in Border Security Force custody, despite its director general's promise to release him soon.
Border Guard Bangladesh director general Maj Gen Anwar Hossain had spoken to the BSF director general U K Bansal, BGB public relations officer Mohosin Reza told bdnews24.com early Friday evening. He had added that Bansal had assured Anwar that the BGB man in their custody would be released shortly.
BGB members had shot an Indian citizen at no man's land at Sonamura in western Tripura, 80 kilometres west of Agartala while smuggling banned cough syrup Phensedyl into Bangladesh, BGB said. Phensedyl is in high demand among druggies here.
Irate Indian villagers then whisked away habilder Lutfar Rahman, who was later taken to BSF's Dhanpur camp.
BGB said the deceased, Shah Alam, 40, is a drug peddler from Sonamura.
Earlier, BGB Battalion -33 Lt Col Aktaruzzaman told reporters that they had a flag meeting with BSF at zero point along Tarapukur border to secure the release of Lutfar.
The one-and-half-an-hour-long meeting, also attended by BSF Battalion -29's Gausava Dhanpur Camp commander A K Helbaram and his deputy Anil Kumar, however, ended without a decision, he said.
BGB Battalion -33 intelligence chief major Ishtiak Ahmed told bdnews24.com; "They (BSF) told us in the meeting that Lutfar is in good condition. But they did not allow us to see or talk to him."
Tension ran high in the bordering villages following the killing and the capture of Bangladeshi guard.
Earlier in the day, BGB Comilla sector commander Col Rustam Ali told bdnews24.com that a Boara camp patrol was sent around 6:30am to Laxmipur Dalkia village of Geliara union at Sadar (south) Upazila on a tip-off that a consignment of Phensedyl was being smuggled in through the border.
BGB personnel fired several rounds when the smugglers came to know about the drive and attacked them, he said.
The smugglers held Lutfar and took him away to the other side of the border after Shah Alam had been shot and killed, Col Rustam added.
The latest incident coincides with recent controversy over BSF allegedly stripping and assaulting a Bangladeshi villager earlier this week in the West Bengal border.
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Abducted BGB man still with BSF
Fri, Jan 20th, 2012 8:22 pm
Comilla, Jan 20 (bdnews24.com) The Bangladeshi border guard, abducted by Indian 'smugglers' at Comilla border, is still in Border Security Force custody, despite its director general's promise to release him soon.
Border Guard Bangladesh director general Maj Gen Anwar Hossain had spoken to the BSF director general U K Bansal, BGB public relations officer Mohosin Reza told bdnews24.com early Friday evening. He had added that Bansal had assured Anwar that the BGB man in their custody would be released shortly.
BGB members had shot an Indian citizen at no man's land at Sonamura in western Tripura, 80 kilometres west of Agartala while smuggling banned cough syrup Phensedyl into Bangladesh, BGB said. Phensedyl is in high demand among druggies here.
Irate Indian villagers then whisked away habilder Lutfar Rahman, who was later taken to BSF's Dhanpur camp.
BGB said the deceased, Shah Alam, 40, is a drug peddler from Sonamura.
Earlier, BGB Battalion -33 Lt Col Aktaruzzaman told reporters that they had a flag meeting with BSF at zero point along Tarapukur border to secure the release of Lutfar.
The one-and-half-an-hour-long meeting, also attended by BSF Battalion -29's Gausava Dhanpur Camp commander A K Helbaram and his deputy Anil Kumar, however, ended without a decision, he said.
BGB Battalion -33 intelligence chief major Ishtiak Ahmed told bdnews24.com; "They (BSF) told us in the meeting that Lutfar is in good condition. But they did not allow us to see or talk to him."
Tension ran high in the bordering villages following the killing and the capture of Bangladeshi guard.
Earlier in the day, BGB Comilla sector commander Col Rustam Ali told bdnews24.com that a Boara camp patrol was sent around 6:30am to Laxmipur Dalkia village of Geliara union at Sadar (south) Upazila on a tip-off that a consignment of Phensedyl was being smuggled in through the border.
BGB personnel fired several rounds when the smugglers came to know about the drive and attacked them, he said.
The smugglers held Lutfar and took him away to the other side of the border after Shah Alam had been shot and killed, Col Rustam added.
The latest incident coincides with recent controversy over BSF allegedly stripping and assaulting a Bangladeshi villager earlier this week in the West Bengal border.
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