As per a report, the notorious cattle smuggling operation on the Bangladesh border has dropped down to 20,415 till November 2021 from 153,602 in 2015, as the Border Security Force (BSF) is making regular seizures, reports Indian Express reports.
The numbers have been falling consistently from the last three years and as they had plummeted 50 per cent from 1,19,299 in 2017 to 63,716 in 2018 and it further reduced to 46,809 and 20,415 in 2019 and 2020 respectively.
The BSF has also stationed extra personnel to monitor the border properly and is working to put an end to cattle smuggling in the region.
After the BSF received speedboats, they stepped up their tracking of smugglers across the river and they have also been provided with lethal and non-lethal weapons to fire firing on the trans-border criminal.
The BSF even referred to cattle smuggling as a form of sedition in an official statement in 2021.
BSF plays a vital role when it comes to border security and also intelligence and a BSF official was quoted in the aforementioned publication that, “The Haryana breed of cows are hardly seized at the border now. But those from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are still turning up. If state governments act, BSF will not have to do this job,”.
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