To facilitate local public as well as the civil police in checking auto-lifting gangs operating between India and Nepal, as well as to take help of the masses in procuring actionable inputs on drug peddling, human trafficking etc, officials of the Shashatra Seema Bal (SSB) had started a toll free number (18001800203).
``Our jawans were manning Indo-Nepal border round the clock so we thought that they can play an active rolling in putting a break on auto-lifting gangs operating in India, particularly in UP, and Nepal, so we started a Toll Free number both for the public and all others to take their services in this regard”, disclosed IG SSB (lucknow Frontier), Avinash Chandra, while giving information about the new beginning by the force manning Indo-Nepal border.
Chandra, an IPS of UP cadre who is presently posted at SSB, on central deputation further said that once anyone give details about his vehicle at our lucknow based control room, the entire information has been automatically recorded and passed on to their sleuths manning at Border Out-Posts (BOPs). He claimed that they would check the vehicles and if any breakthrough would be made, they would pass on the message to the caller so that subsequent legal formalities could be taken up. He said that this information can be given by anyone as they wanted to forward their services to check cross-border crime.
Giving further details, Chandra said that this services would help them building up good rapport with the public who would later help them by getting important inputs about drug peddling, human trafficking, arms smuggling, supply of Fake Indian Currency Notes and other anti-national activities through the border.
The assistant public relation officer, Arvind Kumar, while elaborating the functioning, claimed that the jawans of ths SSB were doing tremendous job on Indo-Nepal border and many successful traps has been made by them during last few years. However, he said that they felt that by taking the public in confidence, more successful interception can be made at the borders as the people were aware of the cross-border trafficking but due to lack of confidence, they were hesitant to pass on vital inputs to them.