Dhubri, Feb 28 : Three BSF personnel were injured when a mob, led by cattle thieves, attacked them near a border outpost in Assam’s Dhubri district last night.
BSF officials said the three jawans were attacked while returning to Mosolabarichar outpost after seizing eight cattle heads, which were being smuggled out to Bangladesh from Mahamayachar.
“Nearly 300 residents of nearby villages, led by the cattle smugglers, tried to free the cattle forcefully and attacked the jawans — R.P. Thakur, Ravi Shankar and Arjuna Rao — with sharp weapons. Finding no other way out, the jawans opened fire to disperse the mob,” a senior BSF official said.
The jawans fired three rounds in the air, but the mob did not disperse.
While no one was injured in the firing, Thakur sustained serious head injuries in the mob attack and was admitted to the Dhubri Civil Hospital. His condition was said to be stable.
The National Border Construction Corporation has been erecting riverine border fencing in Mosolabarichar as a pilot project for the past three years. But neither the fencing nor border patrolling by the BSF has deterred thieves who smuggle out cattle through the porous border areas of Dhubri district.
The general secretary of the Dhubri district unit of the AASU, Dibakar Barman, said the situation had deteriorated over the years.
and would become worse if the government did not take notice of the situation.
He urged the Centre to ponder over the situation in the sensitive border area where BSF jawans were being frequently attacked — not by terrorists but by cattle smugglers.
“What will the BSF do if terrorists attack them? The Union government is playing with the sentiments of the people and has made a mockery of the Indo-Bangladesh border. It has neither been able to stop influx from Bangladesh nor transborder smuggling nor the activities of anti-national elements in the border areas. It is just a silent spectator,” he added.
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