Indian Border Security Force Friday morning detained a Bangladeshi farmer allegedly from 100 yards inside Bangladesh from the border pillar 321/1 S at Bitnagar of Dharmapur union at Biral upazila in Dinajpur district and returned him six hours later.
Md Al Amin,22, was taken to the Indian side by the BSF on suspicion of smuggling at about 10:00am on the day, according to Border Guard Bangladesh officials.
Later, local people detained an Indian national Narayn Chandra,54, while working in the Indian side of the International border under the Kushmandi police station in Dakshin Dinajpur district of India and brought him to the Bangladesh side and handed him over to the BGB Anayetpur border outpost, said the BGB officials.
BGB 42 Battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Ahsanul Islam said that both the detainees of the two countries were exchanged following a BGB-BSF flag meeting.
鈥楾he meeting was held after establishing coordination with the BSF 91 Battalion,鈥� he added.
Tensions along the Bangladesh-India border have been continuing since the last week of December 2024 as the Border Guard Bangladesh and local people had protested against the BSF鈥檚 efforts to construct barbed wire fences at five points along the border in Chapainawabganj, Naogaon and Lalmonirhat.
Indian villagers on January 18 clashed with Bangladeshis over harvesting crops on the no man鈥檚 land, leaving three people injured and erupting a fresh tension along the Chowka border in Chapainawabganj.
Earlier on January 8, tension erupted along Chowka border at Shibganj upazila in the district as the BSF began constructing fences along the border despite repeated objections from the BGB.
On January 12, the foreign ministry summoned the Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh, Pranay Verma, and expressed concern over the construction of barbed wire fences and protested at the recent killing of a Bangladeshi national by the Indian BSF on the border.