BSF constable drowns while chasing cow smugglers trying to enter Bangladesh

The BSF patrol team apprehended 11 Indians and one Bangladeshi miscreant and caught 74 cattle heads during the operation, reports said. But the operation claimed the life of Roy who was drowned in river Padma.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel patrol the flooded India-Bangladesh border (FILE/AFP)

Kolkata: A Border Security Force (BSF) constable was killed in the line of duty near the Indo-Bangla border. The constable fell into river Padma while while chasing cow smugglers in West Bengal's Murshidabad district. A BSF patrol party received an alert of the miscreants attempting to cross over to Bangladesh on Thursday night. The BSF troops challenged them to stop but they did not pay any heed and continued to move with cattle heads with intention to smuggle them to Bangladesh. The smugglers were armed with sticks and other sharp edged weapons, a BSF release said. The refusal to obey the BSF’s command prompted Debashis Roy who was part of patrol party run towards the smugglers to nab them. "During the chase, he ran after the smugglers and jumped into Padma River to catch them. During this process he got entangled in mud and could not come out from the water and made supreme sacrifice in the line of duty," the release said. The BSF patrol team apprehended 11 Indians and one Bangladeshi miscreant and caught 74 cattle heads during the operation, reports said. But the operation claimed the life of Roy who was drowned in river Padma. The apprehended smugglers and the cattle were handed over to the local police.