BSF picks up one from border
Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) picked up a young man from Jhalongi frontier in the district yesterday morning.
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) immediately sent a letter to its Indian counterpart asking to hand over the man to them, said Nayak Subedar Abdul Khaleque, Jhalongi camp commander of the BGB.
Khaleque quoting locals said that the BSF men at Duyadabri camp in Cooch Behar district abducted 32-year-old Jahangir Hossain around 7:30am when he went to work at his paddy field .
The paddy field is near the no-mans land in Jhalongi border area, Khaleque said.
Quoting BSF at Duyadabri camp he said, they picked up Jahangir when he entered Indian territory to receive cattle.
"Jahangir was held with Indian cattle and BSF will take legal action against him", Khaleque said.
The BSF disclosed this when the Jhalongi BGB camp commander asked their commander verbally about the incident at the time of sending the letter.
Jahangir is the son of one Shobha Miah of Burir Bari village in Patgram upazila of the district.
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