GURDASPUR/AMRITSAR: Two persons including a Bangladeshi national were held by Border Security Force (BSF) at the Indo-Pak international border in Punjab while they were trying to cross over to Pakistan on Friday.
According to reports, the BSF troops found a suspicious movement near the international border in the area of responsibility of Border out Post Kot Razda in the Gurdaspur sector. The BSF troops challenged the suspicious person and overpowered him. The person has been identified as Sebastian, a resident of Sundargarh, Odisha.
"We have arrested him, the initial investigations reveal that he was from Odisha and worked as labourer in the nearby villages, he was in an inebriated state and further investigations were going on," said sources.
In another case, the BSF troops deployed in the area near Roranwala village in the Amritsar sector noticed the suspicious movement of a person heading toward Pakistan.
Sources said that the BSF troops challenged the person and stopped him from making further advances toward the international border fence. The initial investigation revealed that the person was a Bangladeshi national identified as Muhammad Alam Tulu, 62, a resident of Durgabordi, Madaripur, Bangladesh.
Further interrogation of the Bangladeshi national revealed that he wanted to travel to Pakistan but didn’t have a visa so he came to India in an attempt to cross the border via Attari international border.
Alam Tulu told his interrogators that he was married and his family lived in Pakistan and he wanted to be with them. BSF didn’t find anything objectionable from his possession except his Bangladeshi passport.
A BSF official said that both of them were inadvertently heading towards Pakistan but investigations were still in progress.
Two days earlier on January 4, BSF troops had shot dead a Pakistani national who was trying to infiltrate into India in the Gurdaspur sector.
