Smuggled cloths seized

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized huge quantity of smuggled Indian winter cloths from Nabinagar border in Sunamganj Sadar upazila on Tuesday.

A team of the border guards, acting on a tip-off, raided the area at night and seized the clothes worth around Tk 3 lakh in an abandoned condition.

Lt Col Nasir Uddin Ahmed, commanding officer of BGB 28 Battalion, said a strong syndicate of local smugglers considers bordering areas in Tahirpur and Sadar upazilas as their safe zones for smuggling Indian goods for the last few years.

Smugglers usually prefer different borders in the two upazilas as a number of river ways make their tasks much easier, he said.

Motorised or non motorised vehicular communication is one of the main barriers for proper patrolling through the border line in Sunamganj, Nasir added.

Now we have taken a zero tolerance policy in this regards, Nasir said.