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BSF jawans arrested a woman with US dollars at the Indo-Bangladesh border

 

Desk: On July 22, 2022, once again BSF personnel foiled the smuggling attempt. A 59-year-old suspected woman was arrested by the personnel of 158 Battalion at Border Out Post Jayantipur at around 12:30 pm.

A packet was recovered from inside the woman’s clothes after the BSF’s female constable searched the suspect. According to official sources of BSF, US$19,700 was recovered in the packet, which is worth Rs 15,72,848 in the Indian market.

It is being told that the woman smuggler was trying to take this currency from India to Bangladesh. But the BSF jawans arrested the woman at the range before she could carry out this smuggling.

The arrested woman told that she is a housewife and is indulging in smuggling activities to earn money. She told that packet was to be handed over to another smuggler after crossing the duty line of BSF. For this work, she was to get Rs 1000/-.

The arrested woman and the seized currency have been handed over to the police station Petrapole for further legal action.

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