AGARTALA / SONAMURA, Oct 21 (TIWN): 'One more accused has been arrested in BSF Officer's murder case by Sonamura police', Investigating officer Srikanta Chakraborty told TIWN. The arrested person is Russell Mia, resident of Sonamura. Talking to TIWN Srikanta Chakraborty said that Mamun Mia's next hearing will be on tomorrow, i.e. on Sunday. BSF 145 Bn Dipak Kumar Mandal was attacked on Oct 16, by around 25 cattle smugglers at Indo-Bnagla border near Kalapania of Sonamura. Immediately from Tripura's first referral hospital GB, Mandal was referred to Kolkata based Medica hospital, but after four days og suffering in deep coma, Mandal passed away on yesterday evening. However, amidst 25 accused only 2 persons' arrest has been quite unsatisfactory when per the the smugglers are smuggling hundreds of cattle via Indo-Bangla border. Earlier talking to TIWN, SP Sepahijala Sudipta Das said ‘Atleast 20 25 cattle smugglers attacked the Deputy Commandant of BSF Dipak Kumar Mandal.

Around 15 cattle they had been smuggling  via NEEPCO (Monarchak) area. When BSF tried to stop them, they smugglers attacked upon BSF and amidst the attacking hours the BSF commandant was injured seriously’.

‘The driver Mamun Mia was earlier arrested and yesterday another Russel Mia was arrested.

BSF Deputy Commandant of 145 Btn Dipak Kumar Mandal was  injured seriously at Kalapania area of Sonamura while counterattacking smugglers at there but now fighting with life at Kolkata based Hospital. The incident took place at around 2 AM of Sunday night at Kalapania’s Shalkhet area in front of Forest Dept Official. 3 round of shooting was informed by the locals of Kalapania, but for whole investigation BSF was eyeing for Dipak Mandal's recovery but that could not be possible as Cattle smugglers had slayed him forever.

Deepak Kumar Mandal was the second-in-command rank officer in the BSF's 145th battalion.

 Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy has condoled the pathetic death of BSF 145 Bn Dy Commandant Dipak Mandal. “God rest his soul,Om Shanti. Died in the service of the motherland,at the hands of cattle smugglers. Now let's see how many say #IamDeepak”, Governor tweeted.