A woman personnel of the Border Security Force has successfully beaten back infiltration bid by an armed band of Bangladeshis fighting them single-handedly at the Ranaghat border out-post of the 68th battalion in Nadia district, sources in the para-military organisation said.
According to sources the lady official in charge of a CCTV control room on July 30 noticed some 14 people walking towards the Indian side of the border. She immediately rushed towards them and directed them to stop and return.
However, armed with knives and other lethal weapons they would not listen and charged at her. The valiant BSF personnel fought back even as a fellow jawan threw a “stun grenade” from a distance to frighten the intruders away.
As the infiltrators continued to advance undeterred the woman constable fired a single shot from her rifle scaring the infiltrators who then ran back to their side, sources said, adding this was the third such infiltration bid that was foiled in the past one week.
Referring to the issue Bengal Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari said during Mamata Banerjee’s rule infiltration had peaked and that the Trinamool Congress was aiding illegal infiltration to increase its vote base comprising the Rohingyas.
“It is the same Mamata who protested valiantly against the Left Government for encouraging infiltrators… and now it is under her Government that the Rohingyas are infiltrating in large numbers and migrating to other parts of the country creating law and order problems,” Adhikari earlier said.
