BSF Suspends Seven After Bangladeshi Killed Along Border

BSF has ordered a Staff Court of Inquiry into the killing of a Bangladeshi along the Indo-Bangla border.

• Border Security Force has suspended seven of its troops including an officer posted along the Indo-Bangla frontier after the alleged killing of a Bangladeshi along the International Border in West Bengal. A Staff Court of Inquiry has been ordered into the incident.
  
  
• The boy, identified as Sajjal Halsena, a resident of the Chuadenga district of Bangladesh, was killed when the BSF were firing at a group which was indulging in cross-border gold smuggling. BSF party leader, A Atreya, fired a shot when he was negotiating with the smugglers to release a officer they had taken hostage. The teenager succumbed to his injuries after he was taken by his friends to the other side of the border.
  
  
• The BSF headquarters has taken a stern view of the case as it has come at a time when a high-level delegation of the Border Security Force, led by its Director General K K Sharma, is in Dhaka for the annual border talks with their counterparts Border Guard Bangladesh.
  
  
• Interestingly, Atreya, a commando-trained officer of the border guarding force, has recently become the face of the BSF in a international documentary which brought to the audience the exploits of the over 50-year-old force raised in 1965.