MEHERPUR: Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) pushed back 40 Bangladesh nationals through Mujibnagar frontier of the district on Friday.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) sources said the BSF members of India’s Patharghata camp pushed back the Bangladeshis through the frontier and they scattered different areas from the upazila.

Biswajit Mandol, who was pushed back by BSF, told banglanews that he was detained by Indian police one year ago for entering there without visa.

On Thursday afternoon, 100 people including him released from Kolkata’s Damdam jail and returned home through several frontiers, he added.

But he was not sure whether all of them were Bangladeshis.

BGB Mujibnagar BOP Commander Subedar Abu Taher told banglanews that they heard about the pushback, but, have no information about the incident.

BDST: 1943 HRS, MAY 15, 2015
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