BSF Foils Efforts To Smuggle Phensidyl On The Border

BSF foils efforts to smuggle Phensidyl on the border, two smugglers arrested.

Border Security Force (BSF) personnel under South Bengal Frontier have arrested two smugglers with 425 bottles of banned Phensidyl cough syrup in two separate incidents.

BSF foiling smuggling attempts across the Indo-Bangladesh International Border area in Malda district.

A statement from the BSF said on Tuesday that the operation was carried out during the intervening night of March 7-8 in the border post of 70th Corps, MS Pur, and Nawada area under the Malda sector of the force.

Officials said that the smugglers were trying to take all these Phensidyl bottles from India to Bangladesh for the purpose of smuggling.

BSF foils efforts to smuggle: According to the BSF, the estimated value of the seized Phensidyl is around Rs 79,326.

The statement said that on the basis of strong information, the personnel of the 70th Corps planted two ambushes in the area of ​​​​MS Pur and Nawada.

Both Ambush parties arrested two smugglers with small bags from their respective areas. Both those smugglers were moving towards the international border for the purpose of smuggling.

During the search, 425 bottles of Phensidyl were recovered from the smugglers. The names of both the smugglers are Sujit Mandal (32) and Mukhtar Hussain (29).

Both are residents of the village- Nawada Binpara, Umakantola while village- Gopalnagar, Sasani respectively are under Kaliachak police station of Malda.

During preliminary interrogation, Sujit Mandal revealed that he had taken these Phensidyl bottles from Chandu Mandal (22), a resident of Nawada Binpara village.

After crossing the international border, it was to be handed over to Rubbu Sheikh (28), a resident of the Chapainwabganj district of Bangladesh.

At the same time, another smuggler Mukhtar Hussain revealed that he had taken these Phensidyl bottles from Sharif Sheikh (40), a resident of Gopalnagar village.

After crossing the border, these Phensidyl bottles were to be handed over to Asadul Sheikh (35), a resident of Chapainwabganj district of Bangladesh.

The BSF has handed over the two smugglers along with the seized Phensidyl bottles to the police station- Gulabganj, Kaliachak for further legal proceedings.

BSF officer pats the jawans on the back.

Here, on this success, the Public Relations Officer of South Bengal Frontier BSF, expressing happiness, patted his soldiers on the back.

He said that this has been possible only because of the alertness shown by the jawans on duty.