The Indian Border Security Force on Wednesday morning arrested a Bangladeshi national at the Patgram border in Lalmonirhat.
Officer-in-charge of Patgram upazila Ashrafuzzaman Sarkar confirmed the matter on Thursday.
The incident took place in Srirampur union at about 6:00am.
The detained is Khairul Islam, a resident of Khengti village in the Patgram upazila.
Khairul was among four to five people believed to be involved in smuggling goods from India in the Panishala border area.
Khairul鈥檚 companions, however, managed to escape, locals said.
The BSF handed over Khairul Islam to the Mekhligonj police station on Tuesday night.
Naib Subedar Abdur Rahim, in-charge of the local Paishattibari camp of the Border Guard Bangladesh, declined to comment about the incident.
The Commander of the 61 battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Sheikh Mohammad Musahid Masum, said, 鈥楾he person who has been detained by the BSF is a smuggler. He was arrested in an area called Panishala inside India.鈥�
