Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Friday handed over the body of the Bangladeshi cattle trader who was gunned down by its members at Boldiya border in Damurhuda upazila of the Chuadanga district early Sunday.
A team of BGB members led by Imran Sheikh, assistant director of Chuadanga BGB-6 battalion received the body of the trader around 6 pm after holding a flag meeting with the BSF, said Swapan Kumar Sarkar, Sub-Inspector of Darshana police station.
The body will be handed over to the family after the due procedure, he added.
Muntaj Hossain alias Jahangir, 32, from Boldiya School Para was shot dead by the BSF on the Indian side of the border around 5am on Sunday when he went to India to bring cattle through the border opposite pillar number 82, according to Lt Col Shah Mohammad Ishtiaq, director of the BGB-6 battalion.
Later, the BSF members took away the body. They also circulated a statement to the media regarding the killing, trying to portray their personnel's discharge of two rounds from his Insas rifle as an act of last resort in self-defence.Muntaj was one of two Bangladeshis killed on the day by BSF.