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BSF ‘crosses into’ Kurigram border, beats 5 farmers

Five farmers have reportedly been beaten and injured by members of India’s Border Security Force, or BSF, after they entered Bangladesh through the border in Kurigram’s Phulbari Upazila. Upon hearing of the altercation, residents of the border region armed themselves with sticks and ga

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BSF ‘crosses into’ Kurigram border, beats 5 farmers
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Published :
Feb 14, 2025 22:04
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Feb 14, 2025 22:04

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Five farmers have reportedly been beaten and injured by members of India’s Border Security Force, or BSF, after they entered Bangladesh through the border in Kurigram’s Phulbari Upazila.

Upon hearing of the altercation, residents of the border region armed themselves with sticks and gathered at the zero line.

The situation was eventually diffused defused when the Border Guard Bangladesh, or BGB, personnel intervened, calming the crowd and restoring order.

The incident occurred near Balatari International Border Pillar No 930 (HS) in Nawdanga Union of the Upazila on Friday afternoon, according to Havildar Delbar Hossain of the BGB’s Gorakhmandal Border Outpost, or BOP.

The five individuals who sustained injuries have been identified as Shamsul Haque, 60, Jabed Ali, 55, Tajul Islam, 40, Kashem Ali, 50, and Ripon, 35, identified by a single name. All of them are residents of Krishnananda Bakshi village.

Witnesses said members of India's Narayanganj-138 Battalion of the BSF crossed the barbed-wire fence and entered approximately 500 yards into Bangladesh's zero line.

The confrontation began when Bangladeshi farmers working along the border protested the incursion, leading to a heated argument between the two sides.

The situation escalated when BSF personnel reportedly began striking the farmers with sticks, leaving five injured.

Upon learning of the incident, local villagers pursued the BSF members, who subsequently retreated across the border.

The clash has heightened tensions in the area.

Local resident Rubel Islam recounted the incident, saying: "When BSF members entered Bangladesh in the afternoon, they were confronted. They became angry and beat us up."

Delbar confirmed that the situation along the border has since stabilised. He added that the incident has been reported to higher authorities for further review.

Lt Col Shakil Alam, commander of the BGB's Lalmonirhat-15 Battalion, asserted: "It is not a simple matter for the BSF to cross into Bangladesh and assault individuals. However, thorough inquiries are being conducted regarding the incident."​

This goes to prove that average citizens of Bangladesh are sufficiently aware of infiltrations by BSF and are capable enough to counter BSF illegal actions. BGB/BDR hardly needed...

 

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Repeated BSF attempts at border fencing vexatious

The attempt of India’s Border Security Force of March 17 at erecting barbed-wire fences along the border at Dahagram in Lalmonirhat is worrying as it violates the established border protocols. Indian border guards began erecting the fence with iron poles and fencing materials along the Sardar...

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Repeated BSF attempts at border fencing vexatious
19 March, 2025, 00:00

The attempt of India’s Border Security Force of March 17 at erecting barbed-wire fences along the border at Dahagram in Lalmonirhat is worrying as it violates the established border protocols. Indian border guards began erecting the fence with iron poles and fencing materials along the Sardar Para stretch of the border. The construction had been halted only after Bangladeshi border guards intervened and formally protested against the move. Border Guard Bangladesh officials have said that the fencing work was taking place in the no man’s land. But, the Border Guidelines, signed between Bangladesh and India in 1975, does not allow the construction of structures within 150 yards from the zero line on each side of the border. The incident follows two earlier attempts of the Indian guards to erect fences along the same stretch on March 2 and January 10. While the situation remains calm for now, local people say that an unease prevails about the growing presence of Indian guards near the border. They report that the repeated fencing attempts threaten their movement and farm work and create an atmosphere of insecurity in the frontiers.

Indian border guards made similar attempts along the borders in Chapainawabganj and Naogaon in recent months. This pattern reflects not only disregard for the established border protocols but also undermines the spirit of cooperation that bilateral relations require. The repeated violations send out a signal for a serious deviation from the commitments made at meetings between the two border forces. Although the meetings have often come up with pledges to uphold mutual understanding and prevent tension, such commitments are increasingly brought into question by action on part of the Indian guards. The move at hand of the Indian border guards could well be construed as an attempt at discommoding the Bangladesh government, which is in a transitional phase, especially in view of a series of events have happened in the border with the direct involvement of India’s Border Security Force. Such events on part of the Indian guards began in the final days of December 2024 with the erection of barbed-wire or electric fences along the border in Lalmonirhat, Chapainawabganj and Naogaon. Such events also endanger any efforts for improvement in bilateral relations, which have faced a setback because of India’s support for the authoritarian Awami League regime, toppled in a mass uprising on August 5, 2024.

Dhaka should, therefore, take up the issue with New Delhi to ensure that such attempts are addressed with the seriousness that they warrant. Delhi, in turn, should also ensure strict adherence to protocols. Such action is not welcome when both the neighbours are working to improve bilateral relations.​

What are they trying to fence? To prevent their poor beggars from going into Bangladesh? In that case they deserve our Thanks...

 

[Saif]

What are they trying to fence? To prevent their poor beggars from going into Bangladesh? In that case they deserve our Thanks...

They are trying to show the world that India has become such an economic power that people from other countries migrate to India for better lives. The Indians conveniently forget that millions of Indians migrate to the USA, Europe, Middle East, Africa and of course Bangladesh for better lives. The Indians say they have a 3 trillion dollar economy but they hide the truth that they have 150 crores hungry mouths to feed.

 

[Saif]

India's criminal border security force, BSF, entered Bangladesh territory and shot a poor villager. Efforts are going on to arrange a flag meeting between BSF and BGB.

 

[Saif]

Bangladeshi youth tortured by Indians in Lalmonirhat border

A Bangladeshi youth was allegedly physically tortured by Indian nationals who reportedly tied them to the barbed-wire fence on Lalmonirhat border on Friday.

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Bangladeshi youth tortured by Indians in Lalmonirhat border
Our Correspondent . Lalmonirhat 19 April, 2025, 00:21

A Bangladeshi youth was allegedly physically tortured by Indian nationals who reportedly tied them to the barbed-wire fence on Lalmonirhat border on Friday.

Victim Azinur Rahman, son of Nur Hossain, is a resident of Ward 1 in Jamgram village at Patgram upazila in the district. He is currently in the custody of India’s Border Security Force.

Witnesses told New Age that the incident occurred on Friday afternoon in Jamgram Dangarpar area of Baura union of the upazila between Sub-pillars 10 and 11 under main border Pillar 801.

They said that Azinur and his mother went to pick maize leaves in a field near the border as they did regularly. At that time, 10–12 Indian nationals from 108th Kuchlibari area crossed into Bangladesh territory and forcibly took Azinur across the border. They tied him to the barbed-wire fence and beat him.

Later, BSF members from the Saraswati camp arrived at the scene and took him into their custody.

Captain Rafiqul Islam, Company Commander of the Border Guard Bangladesh Thangjhara Camp, however, said that Azinur was attempting to smuggle cattle when Indian nationals caught him and handed him over to the BSF.

Efforts were underway to bring him back through a flag meeting with Indian authorities, he added.​

 

[Saif]

A BSF member was arrested for trespassing. He was freed after a flag meeting between BGB and BSF.

 

[Saif]

Bangladeshi national shot dead reportedly by BSF in 24 Parganas

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) reportedly shot a Bangladeshi to death at 24 Parganas of West Bengal early Sunday. The deceased was identified as Obaidur Rahman, 37, son of Hanif Mondol from Gopalpur village in Maheshpur upazila of bordering Jhenaidah district, reports UNB. A group of seven to

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Bangladeshi national shot dead reportedly by BSF in 24 Parganas
Published :
Apr 27, 2025 14:55
Updated :
Apr 27, 2025 16:55

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) reportedly shot a Bangladeshi to death at 24 Parganas of West Bengal early Sunday.

The deceased was identified as Obaidur Rahman, 37, son of Hanif Mondol from Gopalpur village in Maheshpur upazila of bordering Jhenaidah district, reports UNB.

A group of seven to eight people from Gopalpur reportedly crossed into India on Saturday night and they encountered BSF members around 1:30 am, who allegedly opened fire on them. While most of the group managed to flee back into Bangladesh, Obaidur and another could not, locals said.

Later, the BSF members reportedly detained Obaidur, subjected him to torture and then gunned him down, according to information trickling down from across the border.

In the morning, local residents in Madhupur, 24 Parganas, spotted the body, and Indian police from the Bagda police station subsequently recovered it.

Yasmin Monira, the Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) of Maheshpur, said she had been informed by the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) about the body lying on Indian soil.

Lt Col Rafiqul Alam, Commandant of the Maheshpur-58 BGB Battalion, said a body was found on the Indian side, but it was still not clear whether the deceased was Bangladeshi or Indian.

The body was recovered by Indian police and the whereabouts of the missing person remain unknown.​

 

[Saif]

Border Guard Bangladesh is teaching BSF a good lesson for trespassing. Poor BSF!!!

 

[Saif]

Two BSF members are asking for forgiveness by holding the feet of BGB members. Scene like this gives me great delight

 

[Bilal9]

Two BSF members are asking for forgiveness by holding the feet of BGB members. Scene like this gives me great delight

These BSF jawans are lucky to get back home with their skin intact!

Given the anger of border area Bangladeshis, they'd have been dead sooner than later.

I don't know what stupidity causes these people to cross an int'l border with such impunity, if they know the consequences...

 

[Saif]

These BSF jawans are lucky to get back home with their skin intact!

Given the anger of border area Bangladeshis, they'd have been dead sooner than later.

I don't know what stupidity causes these people to cross an int'l border with such impunity, if they know the consequences...

I hope BSF takes a lesson from this and stops cross border terrorism for amicable coexistence with Bangladesh.

 

[Saif]

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BGB, BSF take back their citizens after flag meeting
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Published :
May 03, 2025 00:06
Updated :
May 03, 2025 00:06

The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has returned two Bangladeshis to the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and taken back two of its own citizens after a rare flag-raising encounter at the Dinajpur border.

The handover process was held at the BGB-BSF commander-level meeting on Friday night. Then two Bangladeshi citizens were brought to the BGB camp, according to local media.

Earlier, BSF detained two Bangladeshi farmers while they were cutting and threshing paddy at Dharmajain border in Biral upazila around 12:15 pm. Two Indian nationals were detained by the villagers in connection with the incident.

Local farmer Enamul Hossain and his son Masud were cutting and threshing paddy in the border area at noon. At that time, the BSF took them from near the main pillar number 320.

Avinash Tudu and Philip Soren, who were staying in no man's land, were detained by angry villagers in protest. Later, they were handed over to BGB members.

Confirming the matter, Dharmapur Union Parishad Chairman Nur Islam said the issue was resolved through a flag meeting between BGB and BSF after nine hours.​

 

[Saif]

The Bangladeshi villagers are enough to handle Terrorist BSF.

 

[Saif]

Killing of Bangladesh nationals on border by India’s BSF on rise

Indian Border Security Force keeps killing Bangladeshis in border areas with the number of the killed increasing in recent months despite repeated promises by India to bring down the killings to zero...

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Killing of Bangladesh nationals on border by India’s BSF on rise
24 killed since August 2024
Tanzil Rahaman 04 May, 2025, 23:39

Indian Border Security Force keeps killing Bangladeshis in border areas with the number of the killed increasing in recent months despite repeated promises by India to bring down the killings to zero.

At least 11 Bangladeshi nationals were killed and 23 injured in BSF shooting and beating incidents from January to April this year. Of those killed, five were in April alone, three in March, one in February and two in January, according to rights group Ain O Salish Kendra data updated till April 30.

Border killings by the Indian BSF happened every month excepting November in 2024 since the ouster of Sheikh Hasina on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising in the year, when she fled to India, the statistics show.

In a four-day director general-level conference of Bangladeshi and Indian border forces on February 17–20 in New Delhi, the Border Guard Bangladesh director general, Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui, once again urged his Indian counterpart, Daljit Singh Chawdhary, to bring down the border killings to zero.

During the two months following the DG-level border conference, eight Bangladeshis were killed by the BSF along Indian borders, three of them in March and the five others in April.

Experts, however, pointed to Bangladesh’s subservient foreign policy towards India and India’s ‘muscle power’ and the ‘big-brother’ attitude of the neighbouring country for the heinous international crime.

Human rights activist Nur Khan Liton said killing of Bangladeshi people by the BSF is a longstanding problem.

‘I want to cite two major obstacles to containing border killings: one is Bangladesh’s subservient foreign policy towards India and the other is the [uneven] muscle power between the two countries,’ said Nur Khan.

Mentioning the repeated Indian commitments to bring down the number of border killings to zero, he said, ‘Meetings and conferences would not stop border killings as we don’t even see a decrease in the number [of border killings] despite repeated promises to reduce it to zero.’

Asked about the sudden rise in border killings in April following the BGB-BSF DG-level talks, BGB director for Operations Lieutenant Colonel SM Shafiqur Rahman, however, declined to make any comment.

Home adviser retired Lieutenant General Jahangir Alam Chowdhury was also approached for comment through his assistant private secretary, but he, too, did not respond.

At least 30 Bangladeshis were killed by the BSF during 2024 against 31 killed during 2023, ASK data show.

From August, 2024 till April, 2025, at least 24 Bangladeshis were killed and 32 injured.

Following the overthrow of Sheikh Hasina regime in August, 2024, two people were killed by the BSF in August, two in September, three in October, none in November and six in December.

On April 8, a Bangladesh national was beaten to death allegedly by the Indian BSF along the zero line of the border adjacent to Sejamora village under Bijoynagar upazila in Brahmanbaria district.

Victim Murad Hossain, 36, was found unconscious and in a critical condition by local people near the border.

He was later taken to Brahmanbaria General Hospital at about 9:30pm the same day when doctors declared him dead.

Murad Hossain’s nephew Hasibur Rahman said that he had gone to see his paddy field along the Indian border and BSF members beat him up severely.

‘No case was filed in this connection and the administration, too, did not help us in this regard,’ Hasibur told New Age.

BSF members shot Bangladeshi youth Al-Amin at Putia border under Kasba upazila in the evening of February 28 allegedly suspecting him as a smuggler and he died at a hospital in India two hours later.

On April 27, Indian Border Security Force reportedly shot to death Bangladeshi national Obaidur Rahman, 37, in North 24 Parganas of West Bengal, India.

Obaidur Rahman, son of Hanif Mondol, was from Gopalpur village in Maheshpur upazila of bordering Jhenaidah district.

Supreme Court lawyer Jyotirmoy Barua told New Age that the Professor Muhammad Yunus-led interim government has somewhat stepped away from Bangladesh’s subservient foreign policy towards India to gain some semblance of a free foreign policy following the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina regime and this government has lodged strong protests on some issues.

‘There are tensions between the two countries and tensions have increased recently, which might be due to a communication gap on the diplomatic channel. Bangladesh should work to reduce the communication gap,’ he said.

He, however, also blamed the BSF culture of showing its superiority along Bangladesh borders.

On May 2, the BSF picked up two Bangladeshis from Patgram border in Lalmonirhat after the BGB and the BSF had exchanged two detainees after a flag meeting in Biral border area in Dinajpur.

The exchange took place after Bangladeshi locals picked up two Indian nationals protesting over the incident.

In another incident on the same day, a Bangladeshi youth was critically injured as the BSF opened fire targeting him along Maheshpur border in Jhenaidah district.

In the BGB-BSF DG-level conference, the BGB has pressed for joint inspections and joint records of discussion by engaging representatives of both sides for the construction by the Indian BSF of any permanent structure or barbed wire fences in the 150 yards of no-man’s-land along the border.

In mid-January, the interim government urged India to refrain from causing any provocative actions amid growing tensions along the border over the BSF constructing barbed wire fences, violating the international law at five points in the bordering districts of Chapainawabganj, Lalmonirhat, and Naogaon, prompting both sides to deploy additional forces on their respective sides.

On January 12, the Bangladesh foreign ministry summoned Indian high commissioner Pranay Verma to its office in Dhaka to express its concern over India’s construction of barbed wire fences along the border and to protest at the recent killing of a Bangladesh national by the BSF in border area.

On January 18, Indian villagers clashed with Bangladeshis over harvesting crops on the no-man’s land along the Chowka border in Chapainawabganj, leaving three people injured.

Video footage of the clash showed the firing of teargas shells and sound grenades at the spot.

Following the incident, home affairs adviser retired Lieutenant General Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on January 20 declared that they had allowed the Border Guard Bangladesh to procure non-lethal weapons like sound grenades and teargas shells.

India has already constructed barbed wire fences along 3,271 kilometres of the 4,156km border shared by the two neighbours, according to Bangladesh authorities.

From January 2009 to November 2024, the BSF reportedly killed 588 Bangladeshis and injured 773 Bangladeshis, according to rights body Odhikar.​

 

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BSF kills Bangladeshi youth in B’baria border

A Bangladeshi youth was shot dead by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on the Madla border under Kasba upazila of the district. The deceased was identified as Shakib, 17, son of Motaleb Hossain, a resident of Madla Guchchagram (Cluster village) in Bayek union of the upazila. Shakib died this

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BSF kills Bangladeshi youth in B’baria border
Published :
May 05, 2025 17:06
Updated :
May 05, 2025 17:06

A Bangladeshi youth was shot dead by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on the Madla border under Kasba upazila of the district.

The deceased was identified as Shakib, 17, son of Motaleb Hossain, a resident of Madla Guchchagram (Cluster village) in Bayek union of the upazila.

Shakib died this morning while undergoing treatment at Cumilla Medical College Hospital, reports BSS.

The firing incident took place in the border area on Sunday night. An Indian citizen named Sujan Barman, 35, was also shot and injured.

Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Kasba Police Station Abdul Kader said that a Bangladeshi youth named Shakib and an Indian citizen were shot by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on the Madla border in Kasba upazila at midnight on Sunday.

The locals sent the injured Shakib to Cumilla and the Indian national to Dhaka, he said.

Kasba Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Md. Samiul Islam said that Shakib went to the Madla border on Sunday night to bring a stolen motorcycle through an Indian youth, Sujon.

At that time, BSF members patrolling the border opened fire on them. Sujon and Shakib were shot. Later, Shakib was taken to Cumilla Medical College Hospital in a critical condition, where he died while undergoing treatment on Monday morning. His body has been brought to his home.​