BSF shares the data of narcotics caught last year...
The Border Security Force (BSF) of the North Bengal Frontier region is reported to have caught 444 people including 237 Bangladeshi nationals from the Indo-Bangladesh border in 2022.
A spokesperson for the force said, “We have caught a total (of) 207 Indian nationals; 175 male and 32 women, including one constable of Bihar military police with huge amounts of fake Indian currency. We have also caught 237 Bangladeshi nationals; 186 male and 51 women, including 12 Bangladeshi touts, were apprehended by the troops of North Bengal Frontier in 2022.”
Sharing data on narcotics items, the force said it seized 77,454 bottles of phensedyl, 1,126.76 kg of ganja, 24,223 Yaba tablets and 300.25 kg of brown sugar last year.
The North Bengal Frontier acted on various seizures and worked on joint operations with the police last year. In one year alone they seized 3,430 number of cattle, one jar of snake venom and more than Rs 7 crore of contraband items from the entire border area of North Bengal Frontier which was being smuggled from India to Bangladesh, as mentioned by the spokesperson.
The North Bengal Frontier guards “936.415 km of Indo-Bangladesh border in the five districts – Dakshin Dinajpur, Uttar Dinajpur, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar – with land (including fence and unfence) and riverine border of West Bengal. A total 874 BSF Mahila Praharies deployed on the Indo-Bangladesh border of North Bengal Frontier are effectively safeguarding our country’s border despite vagaries of nature,” the spokesperson said.
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