BSF Director General D.K. Pathak has asked the commanders
and top officials of the force to sensitise troopers and maintain close
relations with people living near the India-Bangladesh border to prevent
unwarranted incidents, an official said here Monday.
The Border Security Force (BSF) chief reviewed the security
situation along the boundary during a meeting with top officials, sector and
battalion commanders here Sunday. Pathak visited Tripura in the wake of recent
incidents along the border. BSF trooper Sandip Kumar, 28, and villager Ismail
Mia, 70, were killed in a clash between the border guards and villagers along
the boundary in Tripura. Eleven people were injured in the incident Friday
night at Akhaurah check post on the outskirts of the state capital Agartala.
The Tripura government has ordered a magisterial probe into
the incident. "The BSF DG has asked the sector and battalion commanders to
sensitise the jawans and other field officials to prevent recurrence of such
incidents. Keeping close relations between the BSF and people would be the
priority for the force," BSF Deputy Inspector General Bhaskar Rawat told
IANS, citing the force chief. Muslim organisations held protest rallies here
Saturday over the incident.
BSF's Inspector General of Tripura frontier B.N. Sharma has
met the leaders of the Muslim organisations and assured them to take steps to
prevent recurrence of such incidents in future. BSF Deputy Commandant Jeevan
Kumar was lynched by the Bangladeshi smugglers accompanied by the security personnel
of that country a few years back while the official was patrolling along the
Akhaurah check post. Tripura shares a 856-km border with Bangladesh that is
porous because it extends over densely forested mountains. Over 25 to 30
percent of the border is still unfenced. Congested human habitations along both
sides of the border often create security-related problems.
Source:
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