Staff Reporter :
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Director General (DG) Major General Shafeenul Islam on Thursday said that we are not worried after 445 Bangladeshi nationals returned home from India in last two months following the National Register of Citizens (NRC) published by the Indian government.
The published NRC virtually stripped about 19 lakh people of citizenship.
A total of 1,102 people were detained while trying to enter Bangladesh. Of them, 606 were men, 258 women, 235 children and three were human traffickers.
However, all of them went to India at different times through middlemen.
The BGB chief said this while answering questions to journalists at a media briefing held at the BGB Headquarters in the city’s Pilkhana on Thursday afternoon.
‘It is BGB’s duty to stop illegal infiltration into the country. It is our routine job and has nothing to do with NRC or CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act). Therefore, we are not worried about India’s internal crisis’, said the BGB chief.
In a query, he said, after verifying their identities through local representatives, BGB came to know that all the intruders are Bangladeshis.
At least 253 cases were filed on charge of illegal trespassing through the borders of Jhenidah, Maheshpur and Satkhira, he informed. He, however, claimed there is no tension between two bordering forces.
Additionally, BGB is planning to buy some modern arms and ammunition to beef up security along the frontiers of St Martin’s Island and borders with Myanmar, he added.
The force is also planning to purchase two speedboats, which will patrol India-Bangladesh and Myanmar-Bangladesh borders along the Padma and Naf rivers and the Sundarbans.
