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Kolkata: The Border Security Force (BSF) in Kolkata on Wednesday said they have busted a major cattle smuggling racket in the Malda district of which was posed as BSF personnel to cross the Indo-Bangladesh Border (IBB).
Official sources said that three Indian cattle smugglers, clad in BSF fatigued, were arrested with two buffaloes.
“This is a major crime. The use of uniforms meant for security personnel is a punishable offence. In this case, they were attempting to smuggle out cattle near the Pannapur Border Outpost in Malda. They had hoped that the BSF personnel wouldn’t pay too much attention and would take them to be colleagues tending to cattle that may have been seized earlier. However, the alert troops of the 88 Bn BSF challenged them, resulting in the arrests,” a senior official of the BSF’s South Bengal Frontier said.
The arrested smugglers were armed with two swords, a knife and a fake plastic gun. The official admitted that this was an eye-opener.
“To any casual onlooker, it would seem that BSF troops are involved in cross-border crime. This could be a reason why false allegations are sometimes levelled at BSF personnel. On a more serious note, such uniforms can be misused by infiltrators to cross the IBB into India. A probe has been launched to find out from where the smugglers got these uniforms,” he said.
