Infiltration From Bangladesh Down to Zero: BSF

Shillong, May 28 : The Border Security Force (BSF) today claimed that infiltration from Bangladesh has been drastically reduced to almost zero-level and expressed hope to stop it altogether.

"We have brought it (infiltration) down to almost zero-level, except for a few stray cases," outgoing BSF IG (Assam and Meghalaya Frontier) Prithvi Raj said at his farewell press conference here.

"The BSF has also achieved very good success in expediting the border fencing project, which, if timely completed, will completely finish infiltration," he said.

Dwelling on some of the achievements of the force, the IG said around 710 "illegal entrants" and 55 militants were apprehended during his tenure of one-year-and-three-month.

"Of the 55 militants, 33 were nabbed on the border and the remaining caught during counter-insurgency operations inside the hinterland," he said.