By Firstdespatch Desk Nov 19, 2024
Agartala, Nov 19 (FD) Economic crisis in neighbouring Bangladesh has deepened following forceful ouster f the former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and as a result of which he cattle rustlers in the neighbouring country have become active to illegally cross the border and lift cattle from the Indian border villages, police said.
A group of cattle lifers from Sylhet region of Bangladesh on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday raided the Indian border village, Paharmura in Khowai district and made failed attempt to lift cattle, but they grievously injured a person in their attempt to flee villagers.
Police said that Dilip Biswas, 37, a resident of Paharmura, a village close to the India-Bangladesh international border, woke up from sleep after hearing a noise around 1.30 am on Monday.
“After peeping outside, he saw several people trying to open the lock to his livestock shed. Thinking that the miscreants might attack him if he confronted them alone, he called up his neighbours over the phone and asked them to come to his house. Seeing villagers coming toward the house, the intruders fled from the spot”, police said.
“When the villagers caught up with them a few metre away and tried to stop them from escaping, a cattle thief attacked a villager with a sharp knife and the gang escaped from the spot,” he said.
The police informed that one middle finger of the victim, Ranjit Biswas, 32, a neighbour of Dilip Biswas, has been completely severed, and he has also lost almost 70 per cent of his right ring finger.
Meanwhile, the local police rushed to the spot and also alerted the Border Security Force (BSF).
Villagers questioned, “How the cattle lifters could enter into the Indian territory, when high alert was sounded following Sheikh Hasina’s ouster?”. FD JK