Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday reviewed the fencing and other security infrastructure in the Mankachar sector of the India-Bangladesh border.
Mankachar, on the Assam-Meghalaya-Bangladesh tri-junction, was once notorious as the smugglers’ route. It is also the sector where 16 Border Security Force (BSF) personnel force were killed by the members of the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles in April 2001 due to a now-settled border dispute.
Accompanied by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Mr. Shah inspected the border from an observation post. A flag march was conducted in his presence by the personnel of the BSF and Border Guards Bangladesh.
