Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has detained six Bangladeshi nationals at the Srinathpur border in Maheshpur upazila of Jhenaidah as they tried to cross into India illegally. They were detained from a banana orchard in Chapatala village of the upazila around 8:30pm on Friday.
According to the Maheshpur Battalion (58 BGB) in Jhenaidah, a patrol from the Srinathpur border outpost (BOP) carried out the operation on a tip-off. The six were detained in Ruhan Mia’s banana orchard in Chapatala village, about 900 yards inside Bangladesh from border pillar 61/9-R, as they were about to cross into India illegally.
The detained are Yakub Hossain, 38, and Imamul Hossain, 35, of Mithabari village in Tala upazila of Satkhira; Haraprasad Mondal, 55, of Bidhi Basuria village and Ashim Mondal, 42, of Tarail village in Muksudpur upazila of Gopalganj; Shib Kumar Mondal, 32, of Sakarikati village in Mathbaria upazila of Pirojpur; and Oliar Rahman, 32, of Kanyadah village in Sharsha upazila of Jashore.
Munshi Imdadur Rahman, assistant director of 58 BGB, confirmed the detention of the six Bangladeshi nationals.
BGB said a regular case is being filed against them at Maheshpur Police Station for illegal border crossing, and the process of handing them over to police is under way.
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