12 rescued while being trafficked to India

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members rescued 12 Bangladeshi nationals while they were being trafficked to India through Putkhali border under Benapole Port Police Station in Jessore on Tuesday night.

BGB sources said, acting on a tip-off, a team of the border guards raided the area around 10:00pm and detained 12 people, including five women and three children.

The arrestees hail from different areas of Gopalganj district.

Sensing the presence of the law enforcers, the traffickers fled the scene.

BGB later handed them over to Benapole Port Police Station, said Officer-in-Charge Monir Hossain.

Away in Rajshahi, BGB personnel detained three Indian nationals for entering Bangladesh territory illegally and seized 1100 bottles of phensidyl from them near Mirganj border in Bagha upazila on Tuesday night.

The arrestees are Sanaul Sheikh, 28, Ayub Nabi, 25, and Babu Sheikh, 20, of Murshidabad district in Paschimbanga.

A patrol team of the border guards, led by Subedar Md Ali Khan of Mirganj Border Observation Post (BoP) challenged the trio while they were entering the country through the Padma River along with the phensidyl.