BDR urged to extradite Indian criminals

Statesman News Service
MALDA, Jan 29: The DIG Border Security Force (BSF) Malda sector, Mr P S Tomar, has requested the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) to conduct a search operation to nab at least 15 Indian smugglers who have taken shelter in Bangladesh.
At a recent coordination meeting held in Dhaka, the Malda DIG Mr Tomar submitted a list of smugglers, who are continuously committing crime along the border in league with Bangladeshi criminals.
“A group of notorious smugglers have taken shelter in Bangladesh and are operating from there. We have been looking for them for a long time now. We have now urged the BDR officials to nab them and hand them over to us”, said Mr Tomar.
“A group of Bangladeshi smugglers are backing them and providing shelter in their country”, he added.
The BDR officials assured us that they would try to identify the Indian smugglers who are living in their country, the DIG said.
The BSF officials are worried about the smuggling activities along the border apprehending security threat to the nation.
“Our officials requested the top BDR officials to take action against the militants’ camps in Bangladesh based on the list submitted to them earlier," said Mr Tomar.
According to the BSF officials, smugglers are also involved in illegal cattle trade, and smuggling other essential items along the border.
Recently the smugglers have been active in bringing fake currencies to India.
The BSF officials are worried about cattle smuggling along the unfenced border and said that it created trouble in maintaining a cordial relation with the BDR personnel as in many cases a few of them back cattle smuggling.