Jammu, May 19: Twenty six Bangladeshi nationals trying to cross over to Pakistan were arrested by security forces in different areas along the international border in R S Pura and Samba sectors of Jammu division today, official sources said. Four of them were arrested near Border Outpost of Sangral and an equal number of them were taken into custody by security forces at Kharkhola BOP in the R S Pura sector. Eighteen more were arrested near bop Mangral in Samba sector around 0500 hours today, they said, adding that these included six women and four children.
Preliminary questioning revealed that they were brought by agents from West Bengal with an assurance to provide them jobs as labourers, the sources said, adding however they were left in the border areas by their agents and they were trying to crossover to Pakistan via the IB. Bureau Report