BSF agrees not to fence disputed areas

The BSF on Thursday agreed to stop erecting barbed wire fencing at disputed places along the border with Bangladesh. The decision came on th...

The BSF on Thursday agreed to stop erecting barbed wire fencing at disputed places along the border with Bangladesh. The decision came on the final day of the three-day meeting with Bangladesh Rifles (BDR).

BSF IG S.K. Dutta, who led the Indian delegation, said: ‘‘The Indian agencies would carry out fencing along the Indo-Bangla border but we would halt the fencing at a couple of places where the BDR is adamant…The decision to halt fencing at some places was taken to de-escalate tension in some areas.’’

More than 254 villages with a population of over 62,000 fall along the zero line. Late last month, when India started fencing the border along these villages, the BDR retaliated with heavy firing.

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Senior Home Ministry and BSF officials told Express that the fencing programme has been put on hold. Senior BSF and BDR officials are likely to meet in Assam to find a solution to the impasse, being watched by the Cabinet Committee on Security Affairs.

The first incident of firing was reported on March 2 from Khathalcharri. A week later, firing was reported on the Singimari frontier. There’s been firing in the Cooch Behar sector also.

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