The Border Guard Bangladesh foiled three more alleged push-in attempts by the Indian Border Security Force at separate border points in Chuadanga and Kurigram on Sunday.
With these incidents, BGB personnel and local residents have foiled at least 46 alleged push-in attempts by the BSF since early May, following the Indian Bharatiya Janata Party’s assumption in power in the West Bengal state, according to the BGB.
On Saturday evening, the Indian BSF allegedly detained a Bangladeshi youth and took him into Indian territory after assaulting him along the Darshana border under Damurhuda upazila in Chuadanga.
In the same evening in Moulvibazar, an Indian national was injured in BGB firing at Borolekha border as two Indian smuggling suspects attacked BGB members with sharp weapons after entering Bangladesh territory.
On Sunday morning, the BGB foiled BSF’s two attempts to push in six people through the Goatapara border point and three people through the Ijlamari border point, both areas under Rahumari upazila in Kurigram.
Lieutenant Colonel Hasanur Rahman, commanding officer of BGB-35 Battalion in Jamalpur, in charge of border security of neighbouring Kurigram also, said that a company commander level flag meeting was held on Sunday but the issue remained unresolved.
‘The nine people, including women and children, are now stranded in the no-man’s-land in the Indian territory,’ Hasanur told New Age.
The same day at about 4:00am, members of the BGB foiled an attempt by the Indian BSF to push 11 people into Bangladesh through the Darshana-Joynagar border in Chuadanga, New Age correspondent in Kusthia reported.
BGB-6 Battalion in Chuadanga commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Md Nazmul Hasan said that the BSF had gathered 11 people on the Indian side of the border adjacent to Pillar 75 near the Darshana international checkpost.
On information, BGB members immediately went alert position along the border, while local villagers also gathered in the area.
The BSF personnel then withdrew and later removed the 11 people from the zero-line, said BGB officer Nazmul Hasan.
Meanwhile in Kushtia’s Daulatpur upazila, 12 people, including women and children, remain stranded in the no-man’s-land along the Pragpur border for three days after the BGB thwarted an alleged push-in attempt from the BSF.
The two forces held a flag meeting in this connection on Saturday that failed to yield any result.
BGB headquarters data reveal that India pushed 2,344 people, including 126 Indian nationals, into Bangladesh between May 7, 2025 and January 26, 2026, excluding Rohingyas, including those registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
A BGB headquarters release said that when they challenged two Indian smuggling suspects at Borolekha border, they launched an attack on the BGB members with sharp weapons at about 8:45pm on Saturday.
The BGB opened fire in self-defence and brought the situation under control, injuring one of them. Both the suspected smugglers fled to India, the release added.
The BSF allegedly detained a Bangladeshi youth and took him into Indian territory after assaulting him along the Darshana border under Damurhuda upazila in Chuadanga on Saturday evening, New Age correspondent in Kusthia also reported quoting BGB officials and local people.
The incident took place just before dusk near the Darshana-Gede International Checkpost area.
The detained youth, Zulfiqar, 22, son of Kalo Moulvi of Joynagar village in Darshana, works at a biscuit factory in Ramnagar area.
Bangladesh shares 4,156-kilometre-long border with India, of which some 180km falls on different water bodies and 79km on the Sundarban.
