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The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) returned a 60-year-old husbandman from confederate Assam’s Cachar territory much than 10 hours aft helium was allegedly abducted from the Indian broadside of the borderline connected Tuesday (June 16, 2026) morning.
Although Ranjit Das was taken distant from the Kinnarkhal country of Cachar’s Katigorah, BGB unit handed him implicit to their Border Security Force (BSF) counterparts astatine the Bhanga borderline outpost successful the adjoining Sribhumi territory aboriginal successful the day.
“The man, a nonmigratory of Chandinagar Part-II colony adjacent to our [Kinnarkhal] outpost, was released astatine 9.15 p.m. aft a bid of emblem meetings betwixt the border-guarding forces of the 2 countries,” a BSF serviceman based successful confederate Assam said.
Later, the section constabulary took Mr. Das to Katigorah Model Hospital for a aesculapian introspection and preliminary treatment. He said helium was initially assaulted by his abductors, but was treated reasonably good during his 10-hour captivity successful a location connected the Bangladesh broadside of the planetary border.
India and Bangladesh stock a 4,096.7-km border. The Assam sector, separated by Meghalaya, is 263 km long. The zero line— the existent bound betwixt 2 countries—runs on the midpoint of rivers demarcating much than 45 km of Assam’s borderline with Bangladesh.
Sujit Das, the farmer’s son, said his begetter had gone to the “no-man’s land” on with 16 others to enactment connected their cultivation plots and chopped writer for their cattle. A 150-yard portion connected either broadside of the zero enactment is referred to arsenic no-man’s land.
“They went crossed the barbed-wire obstruction aft the BSF opened borderline gross fig 31 successful the morning. While returning, my begetter realised helium had near his machete down and went backmost to retrieve it,” helium said.
According to planetary rules, a state tin erect borderline fences beyond 150 yards from the zero line. Such fences person gates that are opened for farmers to enactment connected their plots successful the no-man’s onshore for a circumstantial play daily.
From afar, 1 of the farmers reportedly saw 2 men transverse the Surma River—which marks the bound successful the Kinnarkhal area—in a boat, pounce connected Mr. Das connected the Indian broadside of the riverbank, and instrumentality him distant astatine astir 11 a.m.
“The Bangladeshi nationals told my begetter that they had taken him to settee scores due to the fact that they claimed 1 of their brothers had been killed connected the Indian broadside of the border,” Sujit Das said.
Local BJP MLA Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha said Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma coordinated with elder BSF officials and applicable Ministries successful New Delhi to unafraid the farmer’s harmless return. “This is the archetypal specified incidental successful this conception of the border. We anticipation it is the last,” Mr. Purkayastha said.
