BSF picks up youth
Members of Border Security Force (BSF) picked up a Bangladeshi youth from Sonapur frontier village in Mujibnagar upazila of Meherpur on Monday night.
The youth was identified as Selim Hossain, 28, son of Nazrul Islam of the village.
Selim's father Nazrul told newsmen that Selim went out of home on Monday noon and remained missing since then.
"Selim could not be traced until yesterday morning. Later, we came to know from BGB and our relatives in India that a team from Patharghata BSF camp in Nadia district of Pashchimbanga state entered Bangladesh through Sonapur border. They picked up Selim and dragged him into India at around 9:30pm on Monday," Nazrul said.
He said that they also learnt from a BGB source that BSF handed over Selim to Tehattor police station in Nadia.
Contacted, BGB Mujibnagar camp commander Amir Khasru said, they sent a letter to BSF asking them to attend a flag meeting on Tuesday morning to discuss the matter.
He said, at the meeting, the BSF men informed that Selim was now under the custody of Tehattor police.
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