BGB, BSF discuss border deaths and illegal crossing; skip joint briefing
New Delhi, June 13 -- The Border Security Force (BSF) and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) discussed "border deaths and illegal/forcible crossing", among other issues along the India-Bangladesh border, during the director general level talks that concluded on Thursday, the BSF said in a statement.
Even as the chiefs of the two forces were meeting in New Delhi, personnel of both border guarding forces on the ground were locked in a standoff at several places over BGB refusing to take back Bangladeshi infiltrators caught at the border. In one place in Meghalaya, border residents of both countries also engaged in stone pelting when Indian forces tried to send back infiltrators while BGB and local villagers refused to let them enter that way. HT r...
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