Guwahati: The border security force (BSF) on Friday thwarted drug smuggling efforts and confiscated 25 kg of marijuana, which was smuggled from India to Bangladesh.
The 75th Battalion BSF was stated at the Satbhandari Outpost Border (BOP) under Frontier Guwahati thwart smuggling efforts during special operations carried out by his troops on early Friday based on input.
“Security personnel thwarted the efforts of drugs and seized 25 kg of marijuana, which was smuggled from India to Bangladesh on August 6,” BSF said.
Maintaining the operation momentum on drug and narcotics trade, BSF also confiscated 13 kg of marijuana on Thursday from the Indian-Bangladesh border, while the narcotics were smuggled to Bangladesh.
The porous border between India and Bangladesh is susceptible to smuggling and trans-border crimes, and therefore, BSF officials say that they have instructed all their patrol troops and Bops to be alert during this time because many criminals will take the opportunity to smuggle together the periphery.
India and Bangladesh shared international borders along 4,096 km, the fifth land border in the world, including 263 km in Assam, 856 km in Tripura, 318 km in Mizoram, 443 km in Meghalaya, and 2,217 km in West Bengal.
Sharing around 263 KM borders with Bangladesh, which is 143.9 km is land and the rest is Riverine.