Reported by, Nov. 6 -- Mrinal Banik

Agartala: The Tripura government on Thursday directed the police and security forces to adopt a zero-tolerance approach towards attacks on security personnel, smuggling and other illegal activities along the India-Bangladesh border, even as the Sonamura sub-divisional administration began demarcating land and verifying ownership documents near the Ashabari Border Outpost (BOP), three days after a clash between BSF personnel and local villagers.

At a high-level law and order review meeting at the TIFT Conference Hall in Agartala, Chief Minister Manik Saha said attacks on personnel performing security duties and attempts to take the law into one's own hands would not be tolerated.

He also directed the ...