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BSF apprehended a smuggler with four gold biscuits worth 83 lakhs on Indo-Bangladesh Border

ByNE India Broadcast

Feb 27, 2022

(District – Nadia)


On the afternoon of February 26, 2022, at about 1245 hrs troops of Border Out Post vijaypur, 54 Battalion, BSF conducted a special operation on the basis of specific information in the bordering village of Bilmathpad (Haldarpada) of Nadia district and apprehended a smmuger with four Gold biscuits worth 82.68 Lakh. It is being told that the total weight of gold biscuits is 1590 grams.

Unruly crowd gathered to obstruct BSF personnel from doing their duty.

As soon as the Border Security Force troops apprehended the Adhir Halder(Smuggler) red handed, a crowd of people gathered around to help him to escape and started moving forward with the intention of forcibly snatching him from BSF. The Border Security Force fired two shots in the air to disperse the Mob and took the smuggler into their custody along with gold biscuits. Apprehended person is a resident of Belmathpad, Haldarpada, a bordering village in Nadia district, whose name is Adhir Halder, 55 years old, who is the son of late Lalu Halder.

On investigation, Adhir Halder revealed that he took these biscuits Ravi Nath Biswas S/o Paritosh Biswas of Vijaypur village and was about to hand it over to Sanjit Biswas, a resident of Majdia. He further revealed that he has been doing smuggling work for the last two months.

Apprehended smuggler along with the seized Gold biscuits will be handed over to the Customs Department, Banpur for further action.

South Bengal Frontier Public Relations Officer and DIG Surjeet Singh Guleria stated that the Border Security Force is taking strict steps to stop smuggling along the Indo-Bangladesh border. Consequently, the people involved in such crimes are facing a lot of difficulties. Smugglers having wrong intentions will not be spared. He stated that the BSF troops are being given proper training about each and every modus operandi of the smugglers, so that the smugglers’ trap can be broken. Smugglers are being caught continuously, who are also being punished according to the law.

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