A BSF jawan keeps vigil along the Indo-Bangladesh border in Assam’sKarimganj district on Saturday. Picture by Eastern Projections
Silchar, Sept. 20: A nine-hour night curfew, beginning at 8pm every day, was clamped within a 1-km radius along the Indo-Bangladesh border in Assam’s Cachar district by district magistrate Gautam Ganguli last night.
The curfew followed intelligence inputs about possible infiltration attempts from across the border.
It also aims at preventing the illegal smuggling of rice, sugar, fruits and other food items into Bangladesh and electronic goods, hilsa and melamine products, among others, into India.
Senior BSF officials have confirmed that on an average, products worth Rs 1 crore are smuggled across the border every year.
The curfew, invoked under Section 144, prohibits the movement of people within the 1-km radius, and has also restricted the plying of fishing boats along the Surma river.
The curfew followed intelligence inputs about possible infiltration attempts from across the border.
It also aims at preventing the illegal smuggling of rice, sugar, fruits and other food items into Bangladesh and electronic goods, hilsa and melamine products, among others, into India.
Senior BSF officials have confirmed that on an average, products worth Rs 1 crore are smuggled across the border every year.
The curfew, invoked under Section 144, prohibits the movement of people within the 1-km radius, and has also restricted the plying of fishing boats along the Surma river.
Official sources claim that intermittent curfew has already yielded results, with the number of infiltrators caught along the Indo-Bangladesh border now coming down to an average of 10 against nearly 100 such infiltrators every month.
The smuggling, however, continues unabated along the border areas despite the deployment of two battalions of the BSF along the border.
source: telegraph india
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