The
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Rangpur Region and the Indian Border Security
Force (BSF) North Bengal Frontier held a courtesy meeting at the
Banglabandha-Phulbari ICP on the Bangladesh-India border around 12pm on
Thursday, said a BGB release here today (Friday, September 13).
At
the meeting, BGB strongly protested and condemned the killings at the border
while a 15-year old Bangladeshi youth Jayanta Kumar Singh was shot dead by BSF
at Baliadangi point here on September 9, BGB's Thakurgaon Sector Commander
Colonel Muhammad Towhidur Rahman confirmed it last night.
In
response to the meeting, Inspector General (IG) of BSF North Bengal Frontier
Shri Surya Kumar Sharma expressed regret for the unexpected incident by the BSF
and assured the BGB delegation that the BSF would not open fire on any
Bangladeshi citizens at the border areas in future, the BGB official added.
The
meeting was also attended, among others, by Rangpur Region Commander of the BGB
Brigadier General Khandaker Shafiquzzaman, Deputy Inspector Generals (DIGs) of
the Siliguri and Kishanganj Sectors and other BGB and BSF officials.
Both
the paramilitary forces also agreed to work jointly on curbing cross- border
crimes, preventing illegal border crossing and raising awareness among the
citizens of both the countries residing in the border areas.