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10 held while entering Bangladesh illegally
Border Guard Bangladesh(BGB) members on Saturday detained 10 Bangladeshis while they were entering the country from India without valid documents through Maheshpur border in Jhenaidah district.
Three men and seven women were detained from a field at Gopalpur village of Jadavpur BOP under Maheshpur Battalion around 2.30 pm, confirmed Maheshpur 58 BGB additional director Taslim Mohammad Tareq.
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Some of the detainees were identified as Mohammad Sohag, 32, Sumi, 29, Mintu Mia, 38, Tuhin, 33, and Mosha Mabia, 25.
BGB sources said all of them are Bangladeshi nationals.
A casewas filed against them under Section 11 (1) (c) of the Passport Ordinance, 1973 at Maheshpur Police Station for entering Bangladesh illegally from India without a passport.
Gold worth Tk 2.5 crore seized in Chuadanga
Members of Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) seized four gold bars, weighing 4 kg, worth Tk 2.57 crore from Ramnagar Eidgah Field in Damurhuda upazila of Chuadanga district on Friday.
Tipped off, a BGB team conducted a drive in the area and seized four abandoned gold bars from a field along the Darshana border, said a BGB media release.
The gold bars were deposited with the Chuadanga treasury office.
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Follow the chain of command, PM tells BGB personnel
Stressing the importance of following the chain of command, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday directed the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel to perform their responsibilities with patriotism, honesty and discipline.
“I expect you to discharge your respective responsibilities with patriotism, honesty and discipline,” she said.
The Prime Minister was addressing the celebration of BGB Day-2021 at its headquarters here as the chief guest, joining it virtually from her official residence Ganobhaban.
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Hasina asked the BGB personnel to always keep in mind that discipline and chain of command is the most important for a disciplined force.
“Never break the chain of command, or else it’ll harm you. Uphold the chain of command,” the PM said.
On behalf of the Prime Minister, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan handed over the BGB Medal, President Border Guard Service Medal and BGB Medal- Service to eight members of BGB for their courageous and brilliant contribution in different activities of the force.
The Prime Minister hoped that BGB will move towards its desired goal as a modern border guard force as expected by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
“I expect that BGB will continue its progress as ‘vigilant sentinels of the border’ as a symbol of confidence of the people of Bangladesh,” she said.
Hasina said Bangladesh is now a role model for socio-economic development in the world. “We’ve made a revolution in the fields of electricity, communications, IT and agriculture. We’ve become a developing country from an LDC,” she said.
Mentioning that Bangladesh is implementing “Delta Plan 2100”, she said her government is committed to building a hunger-poverty-free, developed and prosperous “Sonar Bangla” for the next generation as dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu.
The PM said BGB’s one of the responsibilities is to assist the administration in maintaining the domestic law and order alongside performing their duties on the border.
She said BGB’s role in parliamentary elections, city corporation polls, and other local body elections, maintaining the law and order during different emerging situations and in nation-building works have been appreciated by all.
Recalling the contributions of the BGB (erstwhile EPR) to the Liberation War, Hasina said the Father of the Nation declared the independence of Bangladesh soon after Pakistani occupation forces unleashed genocide on March 25, 1971.
Subedar Major Shawkat Ali and three other members of erstwhile EPR had spread the message (the Declaration of the Independence) to the police stations and thanas throughout the country, she said, adding that the EPR major and member had earlier been waiting with wireless sets for the message as per the directive of the Father of the Nation.
She said then the message was sent from the police stations to the leaders of Sangram Parishads formed earlier across the country as per directive of Bangabandhu. Thus the message reached the grassroots throughout the country, she said.
“So, this force (EPR) had a special role in the Freedom Struggle, the Liberation War and the Declaration of Independence, which we always remember,” said the Prime Minister.
Some 12,000 ERP members participated in the Liberation War and 817 members received martyrdom. EPR’s member Birshrestha Shaheed Lance Nayek Noor Mohammad Sheikh and Birshrestha Shaheed Lance Nayek Munshi Abdur Rouf are the symbol of pride, she said.
Among other EPR members, eight members were adorned with the gallantry awards “Bir Uttam,” while 32 with ‘’Bir Bikram” and 77 members with “Bir Pratik” for the outstanding contribution in the Liberation War, she mentioned.
The Prime Minister said they have adopted “Border Guard Bangladesh Vision 2041” to transform this force into a modern one, saying that plans have already been taken to increase its members to 92,000 by 2041.
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She said BGB has been transformed into a “three-dimensional forces” through the introduction of an air wing with the induction of two modern Mi-171E helicopters following the expansion of its activities more than ever before. “The BGB is now capable of carrying out its duties on water, land and air,” said Hasina.
She said her government ensured women’s participation in the BGB and 818 female soldiers were recruited in the force since 2015.
Hasina said work is underway to create 242 new BOPs and relocate 126 BOPs near the border. Despite various limitations, the success of BGB in protecting the border and preventing smuggling and the trafficking of women and children is commendable. In the last one year, the BGB seized drugs worth Tk 850 crore and smuggled goods worth Tk 600 crore, she said.
She said they have constructed 113 infrastructures, including new quarters for new members, bungalows, soldier’s barracks, modern BoPs, office buildings, water reservoirs and water treatment plants.
At the function, the government virtually opened the newly constructed ‘Simanto Sammillon Kendra’ (Border Conference Centre) at its Headquarters.
A smarty turned out contingent of BGB gave the salute to the Prime Minister throughout a spectacular parade.
BGB detains 7 people along Jhenaidah border
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members arrested seven people, including an Indian citizen, from a border point in Maheshpur upazila early Sunday for reportedly entering Bangladesh from India without legal documents.
The detainees are: Mizahazul Islam, 32, son of late Ismail Miah, hailing from India’s South Dinajpur, Sohag Das, 28, son of Satendranath Das of Tarori village under Sadar police station of Magura district and his wife Konika Biswas, 21, and their baby boy Sapnil Das, Subarna Mandal, 38, wife of Shanto Mandal of Palashbaria village, her son Abhay Mandal, 10, and Ibadul Islam, 38, son of late Siddique Mollah of Kushodanga village of Satkhira’s Kalaroa.
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Assistant Director of BGB Battalion- 58, Md Nazrul Islam Khan said they detained them from Kanaidanga village of the upazila early Sunday.
They were handed over to Maheshpur Police Station, he added.
Smuggled drugs & goods worth TK 87 crore seized in Nov: BGB
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has seized smuggled goods, arms, ammunition and drugs worth
Tk 87,96,86,000 during drives conducted in bordering and other areas in November.
Seized narcotics and alcoholic beverages include 3.23kg of crystal methamphetamine, 13 lakh pieces of Yaba tablets, 24,550 bottles of phensedyl, foreign liquor, beer and weed, the BGB said in a statement Friday.
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Other seized items include 3.294 kg of gold, 44 kg of silver, cosmetics, imitation jewellry, sarees, wood, coal and 126 vehicles, as per the statement.
BGB also seized 11 different types of guns and four Chinese axes.
During the drives, BGB arrested 299 people for smuggling, and 126 Bangladeshis and nine Indians for illegally crossing the border.
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Legal action is underway against the arrestees, the BGB said.
BGB arrests smuggler with 1.4 kg gold
Border Guard Bangladesh, or BGB's Maheshpur Battalion on Monday arrested a gold smuggler with 1.397 kilograms of gold near the Indian border at Jibannagar in Chuadanga.
The arrestee is Md. Shahabul Islam, 44, son of Md. Ali Ahmed of Medinipur village in Jibannagar.
The BGB patrol team led by Naik Nazrul Islam of Medinipur BOP was operating an anti-smuggling operation when Shahabul was seen speeding on his bike near Khalpara bridge area of Medinipur village.
The patrol team, with the help of locals, managed to arrest him and seize 12 gold bars weighing 1.397 kg, as well as his 110 cc motorcycle.
Shahabul in custody has revealed two other names- Mohammad Wasim Mia, 35, and Mohammad Rashed Ali, 30, were involved in smuggling with him, said BGB sources.
He was handed over to Jibannagar police station along with the gold bars and motorcycles.
A case was being filed in this regard, they said.
Man detained with Tk 5 crore worth Crystal Meth in Teknaf
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Saturday detained a drug trafficker with 1 kg crystal methamphetamine or Ice worth Tk 5 crore from Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar.
The arrestee was identified as Md Rafiq Mia, 37, a resident of Noapara Jele Ghat village in Teknaf, said BGB-2 Teknaf battalion in a press release issued on Sunday.
Following a tip-off about a large shipment of crystal meth being trafficked from Myanmar through the south of the Jaliardwip area, a patrol team of BGB Teknaf battalion took position on Saturday night.
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Around 9:30 pm a hand-rowed boat crossed the zero line of the border from the Myanmar side and the BGB team immediately advanced towards them but most of the traffickers jumped off in the river and managed to flee, said BGB-2.
The patrol team gheraoed the boat and held Rafiq Mia with the crystal meth in a plastic bag, said the press release.
The procedure is on to hand over the detainee to Teknaf model police station, said BGB.
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Indian nilgai dies of injuries in Thakurgaon
An adult male nilgai that was caught by a mob in Minapur village of Thakurgaon's Haripur upazila on Friday afternoon, died of its injuries hours later, officials said.
The nilgai had sustained injuries while rushing through the barbed wire fence along the border to enter Bangladesh from India, according to Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) officials.
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"It was caught by locals in Minapur village as it strayed into agricultural fields. But we rescued it," said Haripur’s Karigaon BGB camp’s Naik Subedar Kafil Uddin.
The BGB members rushed the animal to Haripur Upazila Animal Resources Hospital but the nilgai died in the evening "due to excessive bleeding".
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Haripur police officer-in-charge Tajul Islam said the animal died during treatment.
BGB recovers Tk 6 crore worth Yaba from Teknaf
The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered two lakh pieces of Yaba worth Tk six crore during a drive at Teknaf, the force said on Friday.
The illegal drug was being smuggled to Bangladesh from Myanmar through Egarokani Alamgir Project area on Thursday, said BGB-2 in a press release.
Read:Tk 1.5 crore worth Burmese Yaba recovered in Cox’s Bazar
A special patrol team of Whykong BOP spotted three men crossing Naf river with some plastic bags around 10:45 pm and started approaching them immediately.
But the smugglers managed to swim through the river and flee sensing the presence of BGB as the location was just 500 metres away from the Myanmar border.
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Later the patrol team recovered the Yaba pills from the two bags they left from the spot, said BGB-2.
Drug peddler killed in Cox’s Bazar gunfight
A suspected drug peddler was killed in a gunfight with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar early Sunday.
The deceased was identified as Md Mamun, 23, son of Abu Siddique of Meena Bazar of the upazila.
Commanding officer of BGB-2 Lieutenant Colonel Mohammad Foysal Hasan said acting on a tip about drug smuggling, BGB members took position at Sluice Gate-7 area of the Naf River adjacent to Meena Bazaar and Nayabazar in Teknaf.
At one stage, the criminals opened fire on the BGB men when they challenged the smugglers, leaving two BGB members injured, and forcing them to fire back in self-defence that triggered a gunfight.
After the gunfight, the BGB team found one of the smugglers with bullet wounds and sent him to Teknaf Upazila Health Complex where he succumbed to his injuries.
BGB members also recovered one lakh Yaba pills and a gun from the spot.
The body has been kept at Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital morgue for an autopsy, the BGB official said.
A case will be filed in this regard, he added.