BGB enter village in Meghalaya

“We don’t understand why the BSF jawans allowed the BGB personnel to enter our village and stopped construction of road internal village road initiated by the Muktapur Village Council” Kmen Mynsang, a resident of Muktapur in Meghalaya’s West Jaintia Hills district.

The panic-stricken villagers have asked the Meghalaya government should take up the matter immediately with New Delhi.

“We were shocked when the BGB personnel entered the Indian territory to threaten the villagers and the BSF who are supposed to prevent intruders were a mute spectators to the entire intrusion,” Mynsang said.

Inspector-General of Border Security Force (BSF) in-charge Meghalaya frontier, Kuldeep Saini confirmed the report of BGB personnel crossing the zero line, and entering Muktapur village.

“They (BGB personnel) wanted to stop the villagers from constructing a road within the 150 yards from the zero line,” he said, adding that situation along the border is under control.

He said all the Border Out-Posts (BOPs) along the 442-km long Bangladesh border is on alert to prevent any intrusion.

However, villagers in Muktapur are worried that the BGB personnel may continue to terrorise them, and may even try to intrude at night.

The villagers said, on April 16, 2001, a battalion of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), the earlier avatar of BGB, had intruded into Pyrdiwah, a tribal border village, located about 30 km west of Muktapur.