Prohibitory orders issued along international border in Assam’s Cachar district

The authorities connected Tuesday (October 14, 2025) promulgated prohibitory orders on the India-Bangladesh borderline successful Assam’s Cachar territory pursuing concerns implicit imaginable extremist question and smuggling, an authoritative connection said.

It said restrictions person been placed connected question on the Surma stream and boating for sportfishing purposes.

In presumption of increasing concerns implicit imaginable extremist movements and unauthorised cross-border activities, Cachar District Magistrate Mridul Yadav has imposed the prohibitory orders nether Section 163 of the BNSS, the connection said.

“The directive aims to support instrumentality and bid and curb amerciable transport of goods and cattle on delicate areas adjoining the Indo-Bangladesh border,” it said.

The orders prohibit question of radical betwixt sunset and sunrise wrong a one-kilometre loop of the Indo-Bangladesh borderline successful the district.

Restrictions person besides been placed connected question on the Surma stream and its banks during the aforesaid period, wrong the territory nether India’s jurisdiction.

Restrictions connected sportfishing and proscription of indispensable commodities

Boating successful the stream for sportfishing purposes has been prohibited unless peculiar support is granted by the ellipse serviceman of Katigorah for idiosyncratic consumption, successful consultation with the lessee and with owed intimation to the territory magistrate and the BSF.

The orders further forbid the proscription of indispensable commodities specified arsenic sugar, rice, wheat, edible oil, kerosene and brackish betwixt sunset and sunrise wrong a five-kilometre loop wrong the territory bound on the planetary border.

However, successful peculiar cases, the ellipse serviceman of Katigorah whitethorn assistance relaxation for circumstantial purposes, clip and locations aft owed verification from section proviso officials, with mandatory copies sent to the territory magistrate and the BSF commandant, the connection said.

The order, issued ex-parte successful the involvement of nationalist safety, comes into contiguous effect and volition stay valid for 2 months unless revoked oregon modified earlier.

The restrictions, however, volition not use to authorities and cardinal authorities officials connected authoritative work successful the borderline areas.