Ahead of Eid-ul-Adha, cattle smuggling on rise along Indo-Bangladesh border
Guwahati/IBNS: Ahead of Eid-ul-Adha, cattle smuggle from India to Bangladesh are on the rise.
According to the reports, cattle smugglers from the Indian side have supplied cattle to Bangladesh by using several techniques to cross the Brahmaputra river.
Border Security Force (BSF) personnel have seized over 150 cattle heads and apprehended few cattle smugglers in Assam’s South Salmara and Dhubri district in last three days.
Acting on a tip-off, the troops of BSF and South Salmara police had seized 41 cattle heads from Muthakhowa and Mathkhola village area under South Salmara police station on Saturday night while cattle smuggling gangs were trying to smuggle the cattle heads to Bangladesh.
A top official of BSF said that, apart from Dhubri and South Salmara district of Assam, the cattle smugglers are also more active in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district and the illegal activities are on rise along Indo-Bangladesh border.
He further said that the BSF personnel had seized more than 1000 cattle heads along Indo-Bangladesh border within a month and apprehended few cattle carriers.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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