AGARTALA, June 7 (TIWN): The state government today ordered magisterial inquiry into the incident at South Ramnagar near here in which two persons, including a BSF jawan, were killed and ten injured during a clash between the border guards and villagers last night, officials said.District Magistrate of West Tripura district, Abhishek Singh, who visited the scene today said the magisterial level inquiry was ordered into the incident and the investigation started from today itself.

“Inquiry has already started and myself is doing so. Result would be known after the inquiry is over. Stern action would be taken if anybody is found guilty. No one would be spared”, Singh told reporters.

Tension is prevailing in the area and security was beefed up with the deployment of Tripura State Rifles (TSR). The security personnel were seen patrolling in the area with arms.

The clash took place when the BSF personnel were chasing smugglers during a routine patrol in the area near the Indo-Bangla border last night, BSF DIG B S Rawat has said.
Among the injured were nine villagers and a BSF man, the BSF DIG said. When the BSF jawans started chasing the smugglers, the villagers attacked the  security men with lathis, the DIG said.

The BSF initially fired in the air to disperse the mob and then opened fire in "self defence" in which a villager, Ismail Mia, was killed and nine villagers were injured, the DIG said. BSF personnel, Sandeep Kumar, were then lynched by the villagers, the DIG said.

IG (Police control) N C Das also confirmed that a villager and a BSF jawan were killed in the violence. The injured were rushed to G B hospital where nine of them were admitted. The BSF man was discharged after first-aid, hospital sources said.

Meanwhile, Bhanu Mia, the brother of the villager who was killed in BSF action, in an FIR lodged at West Agartala police station said that the border guards opened fire after picking up a quarrel with them when they were resting near a pond. Additional forces were rushed to the area, the police said.