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Recent insurgency movement halts barbed wire fencing works along Indo-Bangla international boundary in Kanchanpur sub-division
Prasenjit Chakraborty
Recent insurgency movement halts barbed wire fencing works along Indo-Bangla international boundary in Kanchanpur sub-division
PHOTO : TIWN File Photo : BSF vigil on Indo-Bangla Border

Agartala/ Kanchanpur, February 13 (TIWN): Putting a question mark to the security forces, recent insurgency movements forced the construction company to stall the barbed wire fencing works in Indo-Bangla international border in Kanchanpur sub-division.According to the local sources, after the recent abduction of five staffs of GRIF Construction Company including an officer from outskirts of Rajiv Nagar in Mizoram’s Chakma dominated area, few kilometers from the Mizoram-Tripura-Bangladesh tri-junction by the suspected National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) militants, the border fencing works remained stalled for over past few days in Kanchanpur sub-division.

 Reportedly, the kidnapped persons were suspected to be taken in the jungles of eastern Bangladesh (the crime scene is just a few kilometers from the Tripura-Mizoram-Bangladesh tri-junction).


Of the total 52 kilometers international border with Bangladesh, 12 km remained unfenced under Kanchanpur sub-division, the source added.

Costal Project, a construction company engaged in barbed wire fencing works for remaining 12 km international border has demanded to deploy Tripura State Rifles (TSR) jawans across the construction sites instead of deploying Border Security Force (BSF) jawans, said the source.

On the other hand, ahead of Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) election, villagers of Raishyabari, Gandacherra bordering areas in Dhalai district, Karbook in Gomati district, Kanchanpur, Bhangmoon, Anandabazar and Gachiram areas have reportedly received large-scale ransom receipt from the member of banned outfits. Following the issue, the villagers are passing days with a fear that any time the militants can stage massive attack in those villages, the source added.

The source further informed that, keeping the border guards in deep slumber, a few members of the banned outfits- NLFT and ATTF are reportedly roaming with fire arms in some bordering areas along Indo-Bangla international boundary across the state.

Reportedly, after the erection of fencing and strengthening the security along the India-Bangladesh boundary with Tripura, the NLFT extremists use Tripura- Mizoram-Bangladesh tri-junction as corridor for their cross border activities. The NLFT militants, with their base in Bangladesh, have been kidnapping people in Tripura and Mizoram to collect ransom; said the source.
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