BSF acts against personnel involved in cattle smuggling

Even because the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is investigating the involvement of Border Security Force (BSF) officers in reference to allegations of cattle smuggling in south Bengal, the border pressure has begun motion against its personnel.

“Three of our personnel have been suspended and we have thrown out (transferred) six personnel for their alleged involvement in cattle smuggling,” Additional Director General, East BSF, Pankaj Kumar Singh mentioned. Mr. Singh mentioned the pressure is cooperating with the CBI so far as their investigation is worried and has assured of motion against anybody involved in any wrongdoing.

The CBI had registered a case in September 2020 and arrested two BSF commandants and one native businessman who had been allegedly involved in cattle smuggling alongside south Bengal.

The ADG East mentioned cattle smuggling is at an all time low, significantly in south Bengal. According to the figures offered by the BSF, the seizure of cattle dropped to five,000 in south Bengal in 2020 and the determine for complete West Bengal was 12,000. The variety of cattle heads seized in West Bengal in 2019 was 39,000.

Mr Singh mentioned that there’s a change in the pattern of cattle smuggling and now extra cattle are being smuggled from Guwahati frontier and in addition from Meghalaya. “We are aware of the change in the trends… when there is a clampdown in one area, there is a tendency to switch to other areas,” he mentioned.

The BSF official added that regardless of the lockdown there is a rise in the variety of Bangladeshi nationals crossing the border. Mr Singh identified that the rise is variety of individuals apprehended is as excessive as 20% extra in 2020 in comparison with 2019.

Meanwhile, he additionally referred to incidents of lack of lives alongside worldwide border in incidents involving unlawful trespassing. “Our forces are provided with non lethal weapons, they only fire from lethal weapons when there is a threat on their lives or there are chances of their weapons being snatched,” he mentioned.

The BSF adopts a coverage of non-lethal strategy in terms of these involved alongside the border however over the previous few months there have been incidents the place firing has resulted in lack of lives of each Indian and Bangladeshi nationals.

“Most of those incidents the place lack of lives have been reported have taken place between 12 in the night time and 5 a.m. in the morning,” he mentioned. India shares a border of about 4,097 km border with Bangladesh and the South Bengal Frontier which guards an space of 913 km from Sundarban to Maldi in West Bengal is most porous as a result of its riverine nature and most susceptible to cross border smuggling and infiltration.