BSF apprehends Indian national from Indo-Bangla border with huge Bangladeshi currency

"He also revealed that he has been involved in such type of illegal work for the last two months," the BSF said.

The Border Security Force (BSF) has apprehended a Indian national from Teenbigha border post here and seized a huge quantity of Bangladeshi currency from his possession. Acting on a tip-off, troops of BSF's border observation post (BOP) Teenbigha, on the Indo-Bangladesh border in Coochbehar, arrested accused Md Jainuddin (40 yrs) on Friday.

He was caught while he was going from Mekhliganj to Dhaprahat side via Teenbigha Corridor. "On thorough search, BSF recovered 7,50,000 Bangladeshi Taka, Indian Currency Rs 5,800 and one Mobile Phone from his possession which was clandestinely wrapped in the waist part of his body," the BSF said in a release.

Jainuddin revealed that he received the Bangladeshi currency from the Karzi Money Exchange counter in Changrabandha here and was going to hand over it to one Bangladeshi national Safiul Hussain in District Lalmornirhar (Bangladesh), the BSF release said. "He also revealed that he has been involved in such type of illegal work for the last two months," it added.

Later, accused Jainuddin was handed over to Police Station Kuchlibari in the district, the BSF said. According to the BSF, troops of under-command Battalions of North Bengal Frontier BSF deployed on the Indo-Bangladesh border under the leadership of Soorya Kant Sharma, Inspector General of North Bengal Frontier, BSF is maintaining alertness of highest order on the border to thwart any attempt of anti-national elements to execute their nefarious designs of smuggling, infiltration and exfiltration. (ANI)