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Saif · Jun 22, 2025

India pushes 1,272 people, including Indians, Rohingya, into Bangladesh in 27 days

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India pushes 1,272 people, including Indians, Rohingya, into Bangladesh in 27 days
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Published: 05 Jun 2025, 16: 18

The situation escalated in the area between the BGB and BSF centering the push-ins along the Baraibari border in Roumari upazila of Kurigram Prothom Alo file photo

Bangladesh said Wednesday that neighbouring India has pushed more than 1,270 people across its border in the past month, mainly Bangladeshis, but also Indian citizens and Rohingya refugees.

Bangladesh, largely encircled by land by India, has seen relations with New Delhi turn icy since a mass uprising toppled Dhaka's previous government last year.

"Between 7 May and 3 June, Indian authorities pushed in 1,272 individuals, including a few Indian citizens and Rohingya, through 19 bordering districts", Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) officials said.

"Only yesterday, they pushed 50 individuals."

India's Hindu nationalist government has often described undocumented immigrants as "Muslim infiltrators", accusing them of posing a security threat.

India has not commented on the recent returns across their shared border.

Bangladeshi Jahidul Molla, 21, said he was among those sent back, saying he had been living in India's western state of Gujarat since he was 14.

"They picked us up from home and put us on a plane," Molla told AFP, adding that after two weeks in a camp, he was then taken onboard a ship, along with more than 50 others, almost all men.

"For the next three days, they kept beating us, and we were starving", reporting that they were then dropped overboard in the mangrove swamps of the Sundarbans, which straddle the border between the nations.

"They dropped us... the coast guard rescued us and handed us over to the police".

AFP could not independently verify his account.

India shares a long and porous border with neighbouring Muslim-majority Bangladesh.

The mostly Muslim Rohingya have been persecuted in Myanmar for decades, with many fleeing a 2017 military crackdown.

More than a million escaped to Bangladesh, but others fled to India.

The BGB official said "some of the Rohingya" were registered with the UN refugee agency in India.

Md Touhid Hossain, who heads the foreign ministry in the caretaker government, said Dhaka was "putting all our efforts" into resolving the issue through dialogue.

Indian media report that, since a four-day conflict with Pakistan last month, authorities have pushed back more than 2,000 alleged illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.

In February, Amit Shah, India's interior minister said "the issue of illegal intruders is also related to national security, and it should be dealt with strictly", adding that "they should be identified and deported".

Saif · Jun 22, 2025

BGB tightens border patrols in Brahmanbaria to curb smuggling, drug trafficking, push-ins

BGB intensified patrols along various points of the border in Brahmanbaria to prevent the illegal entry of sacrificial animals from India ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.

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BGB tightens border patrols in Brahmanbaria to curb smuggling, drug trafficking, push-ins
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Published: 06 Jun 2025, 18: 32

BGB strengthens border patrols as push-ins by India continues UNB file photo

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has intensified patrols along various points of the border in Brahmanbaria to prevent the illegal entry of sacrificial animals from India ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, curb post-Eid smuggling of raw hides and combat drug trafficking and other cross-border crimes.

The move also aims to thwart push-in attempts by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF), according to Lt Col Jabbar Ahmed, commanding officer of the 25 BGB Battalion.

On Friday afternoon during his visit to the border area in Anarpur under Fakirmora BOP in Akhaura upazila to inspect the security arrangements, he said, “Instructions have been issued for BGB to remain on high alert to prevent the smuggling of sacrificial animal hides after Eid, combat drug and goods smuggling, and resist any push-in attempts by the BSF.”

He added that surveillance and patrols have been significantly increased in the border areas as part of these efforts.

Thanks to the heightened vigilance of both BGB personnel and local residents, no push-in incidents have been reported in this sector so far, he noted.

“In the past month alone, the 25 BGB Battalion has seized drugs and smuggled goods worth over Tk 9 crore and 36 lakh,” the BGB official added, stressing that anti-smuggling drives will continue.

Saif · Jun 22, 2025

India’s push-in move a ‘deliberate’ provocation, says Rizvi

Senior BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has likened the recent surge in cross-border push-ins to stepping on someone’s foot to start a fight -- a “deliberate provocation” by India. He linked the wave of forced repatriations to what he described as “growing hostility” from

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India’s push-in move a ‘deliberate’ provocation, says Rizvi

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Senior BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has likened the recent surge in cross-border push-ins to stepping on someone’s foot to start a fight -- a “deliberate provocation” by India.

He linked the wave of forced repatriations to what he described as “growing hostility” from the neighbouring country, possibly fuelled by resentment over the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government.

He questioned the motive behind the alleged actions. “Why this sudden turn? Is it because Hasina is no longer in power that they’ve become more aggressive?”

Speaking at the BNP’s Naya Paltan office on Wednesday afternoon, the senior joint secretary general claimed that push-ins were now occurring almost daily across different border points including Thakurgaon, Moulvibazar, Kurigram and Satkhira -- with groups of 20 to 50 people being sent across at a time.

Rizvi said: “It seems as if someone is deliberately trying to provoke a confrontation-- that’s the question now being asked across the country, even among the international community.

“Why this sudden spree of push-ins?”

Taking aim at the Assam chief minister, Rizvi said Bangladesh is being treated like a “dumping ground”.

“Their words and behaviour reek of arrogance,” he added.

“You’re a sovereign country. So are we,” the BNP leader said. “But if you continue provoking us by declaring your citizens as foreigners and sending them across the border, our response will not stop at protest -- there will be resistance.”

Rizvi also criticised the interim government over what he called a lack of urgency in tackling the rising spread of Covid-19 and dengue.Local events

District hospitals remain unequipped, he said, particularly in Barishal Division, where Covid patients from Patuakhali and Barguna are being shifted to Barishal Medical College Hospital for treatment.

“Patuakhali and Barguna are district towns. Why don’t they have adequate government facilities? After the devastating wave of Covid a few years ago that killed so many, the government should not have remained idle.”

On the latest Covid-19 cases uptick, Rizvi said: “This fresh wave doesn’t look like a good sign at all. The government and health ministry must act immediately.”

“We’ve seen no awareness campaign, no protective measures. The government must fulfil its duty to ensure public safety.”

He also flagged the spread of dengue as a serious concern, pointing to its growing intensity across Barishal Division.

Saif · Jun 22, 2025

48 Rohingyas registered in India pushed into Bangladesh

The Border Security Force of India has recently pushed at least 122 Rohingyas, including 48 registered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in India, into Bangladesh...

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48 Rohingyas registered in India pushed into Bangladesh
Tanzil Rahaman 12 June, 2025, 00:14

The Border Security Force of India has recently pushed at least 122 Rohingyas, including 48 registered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in India, into Bangladesh.

The Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner said that they could detect 117 Rohingyas, including 43 registered by the UNHCR in India, who were pushed into Bangladesh by the BSF, in different camps in Cox’s Bazar until May 25.

The Armed Police Battalion and the Office of the RRRC identified five more Rohingyas registered by the UNHCR in India at a camp in Teknaf on June 10.

The five were pushed into Bangladesh by the Indian authorities through the Tentulia border point in Panchagrah district on June 4, according to RRRC officials.

Pushing refugees registered in one country into another one is unlawful and a violation of the norms of International relations, academics said.

India began pushing people into Bangladesh on May 7 through different bordering points and it continued until June 10, according to the officials of Border Guard Bangladesh.

According to an RRRC letter sent to the disaster management and relief affairs secretary on May 27, the RRRC has recently detected 117 Rohingyas from India in 33 camps of Ukhia and Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar.

Of them, 43 are registered with UNHCR in India, 47 are registered with UNHCR in Bangladesh and 27 do not have any registration anywhere, it said.

‘We have identified that these 117 Rohingyas were pushed into Bangladesh by India recently. They, after the push-in incidents, took shelter in different camps in Ukhia and Teknaf. All of them were pushed by the Indian BSF,’ RRRC top official Mohammed Mizanur Rahman said on Wednesday.

Mizanur, however, said that the actual number of such Rohingyas might be higher than the data they collected as it was a compilation of the data collected until May 25.

Asked about checking Rohingya intrusion from India, RRRC chief Mizanur said that it was BGB’s task to check such intrusions.

Neither the BGB director general Major General Mohammad AshrafuzzamaSiddiqui nor its deputy director general for communications Colonel Mohammad Shariful Islam could be reached for comments despite several attempts over the phone. They also did not respond to text messages from New Age.New age fashion

Over 1.3 million Rohingyas fled to Bangladesh amid atrocities by the Myanmar military since 2017, according to government data.

In a letter to RRRC in April, the UNHCR pressed for ensuring accommodation of 1.13 lakh more Rohingyas who entered Bangladesh between November 2023 and April 27, 2025.

Dhaka University’s former international relations professor Imtiaz Ahmed said that pushing refugees registered in one country into another country instead of sending them to their homeland was unlawful.

‘According to my knowledge, Indian law does not allow such incidents. Human rights activists from India and Bangladesh should raise voices over push-ins,’ he said.

He also urged the government to conduct a survey of people pushed into Bangladesh from India for the sake of national security.

He stressed the need to engage experts in such a survey as the government seemed to have failed to manage the issue through diplomatic channels.

Dhaka University international relations professor ASM Ali Ashraf said that India, by pushing refugees into Bangladesh, was throwing the vulnerable community into more vulnerable conditions.

Asked whether India’s push-ins would create a security threat for Bangladesh, he said, ‘India is pushing Bangladeshis, Rohingyas and Indian nationals into our country. If they were trained to create instability in Bangladesh, it might be a further threat to our country.’

According to a report in the New York Times published online on May 17, the United Nations has called for an investigation into ‘credible reports’ that Indian authorities rounded up Rohingya refugees and expelled them.

A press release issued by the BGB on May 15 said that the BGB-22 Battalion detained five of a Rohingya family registered with UNHCR in India from the Natunhat Bazar area under Bhurungamari upazila in Kurigram on May 7.

The release said that the BSF pushed them into Bangladesh. The family that went to India from Myanmar two years ago used to live in the Matia Refugee camp in India’s Assam, it said.

The number of people pushed into Bangladesh by India since May 7 has reached 1,336 amid tight security measures taken by the BGB and the police along the border.

Bangladesh government has sent official letters to India over the push-in incidents.

The BGB also lodged verbal and written protests to their Indian counterpart BSF and held flag meetings over the issue.

Saif · Jun 22, 2025

India keeps pushing people into Bangladesh

India continued to push people into Bangladesh as the Border Security Force pushed 77 more people into Bangladesh through different border points in Sylhet, Sunamganj and Lalmonirhat districts on Thursday.

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India keeps pushing people into Bangladesh
Staff Correspondent 13 June, 2025, 00:06

Border Guard Bangladesh members stand by the individuals pushed into Bangladesh by the Indian Border Security Force in Sylhet on Wednesday. | Focus Bangla photo

India continued to push people into Bangladesh as the Border Security Force pushed 77 more people into Bangladesh through different border points in Sylhet, Sunamganj and Lalmonirhat districts on Thursday.

With the latest push-ins, the number of people pushed into Bangladesh by India since May 7 reached 1,413.

India began pushing people, including Rohingyas and Indian nationals, on May 7 when a war-like situation prevailed between India and Pakistan, raising concerns over human rights violations and potential strains on cross-border relations.

Of the fresh push-in incidents, 70 people were pushed into Bangladesh through different border points in Sylhet and Sunamganj districts and seven of a family were pushed through a border point in Lalmonirhat, according to the BGB.

New Age staff correspondent in Sylhet reported that 53 people were pushed into Bangladesh through three border points under Jaintapur and Companiganj upazilas in Sylhet district and 17 other people through a border point under Chhatak upazila in Sunamganj.New age fashion

BGB-48 Battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Md Nazmul Haque said that 18 women, 30 children, and 22 men were pushed into Bangladesh through different border points under the battalion between 1:30am and 4:30am on Thursday.

He also said that the 70 individuals were detained immediately after they were pushed into Bangladesh by the BSF and they were handed over to the respective police stations at around noon.

‘Among the detainees, 43 are residents of Kurigram district and 27 of Lalmonirhat district. They went to India in different times in the past and were working in different parts of India, including Delhi,’ the BGB battalion commander said, referring to the detainees.

The police said that sending the detainees to their respective families was under process.

Bangladesh government has sent official letters to India over the push-in incidents, BGB-48 Battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Md Nazmul said, adding that the BGB also lodged verbal and written protests to the BSF and held flag meetings over the issue.

New Age correspondent in Lalmonirhat reported that the BSF pushed seven people into Bangladesh through the Durgapur border under Aditmari upazila in the district.

BGB 15 battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Mehehdi Imam said that the BGB detained the seven people early Thursday.

‘The detainees said that they are Bangladeshi and entered India with the help of brokers three years ago,’ he said.

They were handed over to the police and the police would take necessary action after verifying their identities, added the BGB official.

The BSF, meanwhile, attempted to push another 12 people through the Patgram and Hatibandha bordering points, BGB officials said.

According to Bangladesh authorities, Bangladesh has 4,156 kilometres of border with India, of which some 180 kilometres fall on different water bodies and 79 kilometres on the Sundarbans.