Alleged Bangladeshi smugglers attacked and grievously wounded three Border Security Personnel in the North 24 Parganas district, BSF sources said adding the incident took place when the Indian security personnel challenged them in the small hours of Saturday. According to sources a team of 107th battalion of the force had laid an ambush near Bansghata village following reports that the culprits were active in a specific area of the border. After the BSF personnel challenged miscreants, about 10-12 in number, they attacked the men in uniform with hand-combat weapons injuring at least three of them.
“Our boys had reached the area at around 3.30 am and when they challenged the miscreants they encircled the BSF party and brutally attacked them with bamboo sticks and sharp-edged cleaver-like weapons called ‘'Da’', a BSF officer said adding the smugglers ran across the border when the jawans fired give rounds from their non-lethal pump action gun in self defence in which at least one intruder was injured.
About eight kilograms of or marijuana was seized from the miscreants, sources said.
Elsewhere much to the chagrin of the BJP leadership a state forensic party reached blast site at Malda --- where an e-rickshaw was blown into smithereens following an explosion in his vehicle --- three days after the incident.
“The State government’s sensitivity towards such acts are understandable from such incidents where the forensic parties reach three days after a blast providing enough time to the miscreants if any to cross the border and flee to Bangladesh,” State BJP leader Sayantan Basu said. While the police had earlier said that the blast could be a result of explosion in the battery of the vehicle locals smelt a rat wondering whether the intensity of the blast could be so high in case of a battery blast.
A hand and the head of the driver were torn and tossed off several feet away due to the impact of the blast. The State Crime Investigation Department (CID) was presently conducting the investigations.