India’s push-in incidents well-planned: DG of BGB

Director General (DG) of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui has said that the recent push-in incidents at the border orchestrated by India were well-planned and despicable. 

The BGB made the comment after a meeting of the Advisory Council Committee on Law and Order at the Secretariat on Monday. 

Home Affairs Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd.) Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury was present.

“As many as 202 individuals were pushed inside Bangladesh through different desolated points in the night of May 7 and 8,” he said.

Of the pushed back individuals, there were 29 Rohingyas and five of them were registered by UNHCR in India, he said.
 
“It is a complete violation of human rights,” he said, adding that the BGB registered a complaint to BSF about the matter.
 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) will be corresponding with the Indian External Affairs (MEA) and decide about the next course of action on the push in of the individuals, he said.
 
He said, Bangladesh will accept its nationals with due process.
 
The BSF has tried to push 200/300 more individuals inside Bangladesh in the last two days through Khagrachhari point. But, BSF could not do this due to constant patrol and vigilance of the BGB, he said.

The BSF also pushed 78 individuals inside Bangladesh through a remote char of Sundarbans. Bangladesh Coast Guard has rescued them, he said.
 
“We are constantly keeping our watch on the frontier,” he said.