BSF Arrests Smuggler With Gold Worth ₹36.73 Lakh On India-Bangladesh Border

Kolkata: BSF jawan at Charbhadra Base of 146th Battalion under BSF South Bengal Frontier, acting on an information, foiled the gold smuggling attempt on the India-Bangladesh border in Murshidabad district of West Bengal and arrested a smuggler with 3 gold biscuits and 1 gold coin.

When the smuggler was trying to smuggle the gold from Bangladesh to India, the BSF caught him and seized gold which weighs 467 grams and the estimated value of the same is Rs 36.73 lakhs.

On the other hand, tension erupted at the Indo-Bangladesh border in Sukhdevpur in Malda after Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) attempted to obstruct the construction of a barbed wire fence there.

DIG (South Bengal Frontier) and Spokesperson N K Pandey, however, said that normalcy had returned to the area and the construction is going on as planned.

Taking to X, Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari wrote, “"How's the Josh?" “High Sir”. Tempers flared when Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnels tried to intervene during the Border Fencing process at Bakhrabad Village Post; Sukdevpur on the India-Bangladesh Border in Baishnabnagar Gram Panchayat area in the Kaliachak III Block; Malda District. The Local Indian Citizens of the area along with the @BSF_India. Personnels scared them off and made them realize that no nuisance will be tolerated, when it comes to National Security. Chants of Bharat Mata Ki Jai, Vande Mataram and Jai Shree Ram were reverberating when the BGB personnels were forced to flee. This is the effect of the Public Awakening in West Bengal and Nationalism is flowing in the veins.”