BSF personnel carrying out an inspection found cockroaches, damaged washrooms soiled with human waste on the dilapidated coaches, which they flagged to Northeast Frontier Railway.
The scaled-down ceremony is being resumed after it was halted on 7 May, when India launched Op Sindoor, and Pakistan retaliated, resulting in escalated tensions at the border.
Latest seizure came Friday when BSF and Punjab Police recovered five hand grenades, six detonators, 4.5 kg of RDX and IED circuits, suspected to have been dropped by drones.
Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui, who was in India for border talks with the BSF, also said the law & order situation in the country was a 'political' problem.
The latest ceasefire violation comes days ahead of the first phase of the three-phase assembly elections in the union territory scheduled on 18 September.
BSF in regular touch with Border Guard Bangladesh, who are 'cooperating' to contain crowds. Centre constitutes panel to ensure safety of Indian citizens and minorities in Bangladesh.
A BSF official told ThePrint that attempts to enter India illegally were made at three border outposts in BSF’s North Bengal frontier, which shares a border with Bangladesh.
BSF data shows that 4,315 students from India, Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldives and Canada, including 41 from Bangladesh, entered India between 18 and 23 July.
The case of Union MoS Shantanu Thakur issuing permits for cross-border transportation of beef highlights BSF's dilemma in providing security to border residents while preventing smuggling and other crimes.
BJP's Shantanu Thakur, accused by TMC's Mahua Moitra of issuing passes to transport beef along Indo-Bangladesh border ahead of Bengal bypoll, points his finger at 85 Battalion.
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