Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has seized 49 bottles of Indian liquor in two separate operations on the Moheshpur border in Jhenaidah. Moheshpur Battalion (58 BGB) also detained six Bangladeshi nationals, including a woman, as they tried to cross the border illegally into India.
The operations were carried out early on Thursday (12 November) in the areas covered by the Madhabkhali and Khosalpur border outposts (BOPs) under Moheshpur Battalion (58 BGB).
According to a BGB press release, at around 5:15am on Thursday a team raided the mango orchard of Md Jabbar in Madhabkhali village, about 150 yards inside Bangladesh from border pillar 60/5-S in the Madhabkhali BOP area. The anti-narcotics operation, led by Havildar Md Aliar Rahman, seized 49 bottles of Indian liquor.
Separately, at around 5:50am the same day, BGB carried out an operation near the brick kiln field in Solaimanpur village, about one kilometre inside Bangladesh from border pillar 60/77-R in the Khosalpur BOP area. During a regular patrol led by Havildar Md Nasir Uddin Howlader, six Bangladeshi nationals, five men and one woman, were detained as they tried to cross illegally from Bangladesh into India.
Those detained are Md Alam Mia, 34, of Gafargaon upazila in Mymensingh; Md Shawkat Mia, 24, of Gazipur Sadar upazila; Md Rehat Mia, 31, of Itna upazila in Kishoreganj; Sanjoy Mondal, 36, of Bhanga upazila in Faridpur; and Md Masud Rana, 35, of Atghoria upazila in Pabna. The press release did not give the name or details of the woman detained.
Imdadur Rahman, assistant director of Moheshpur Battalion (58 BGB), confirmed the information.
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