BSF detects tunnel for smuggling cattle to Bangladesh

The Border Security Force (BSF) has found an 80-metre-long tunnel near Chopra-Fatehpur border outpost, a senior BSF officer said today.
The BSF officials suspects the tunnel was being built by the cattle smugglers to facilitate their trade, said a top BSF officer.
The 80-metre-long under-construction tunnel was found near Chopra-Fatehpur Border outpost in north Bengal adjacent to Kisanganj.
BSF Deputy Inspector General Devi Sharan Singh at the BSF's sectoral headquarters in Kisanganj, said the smugglers were digging the tunnel under the fence in order to overcome the problem of cattle smuggling to Bangladesh due to fencing of the Indo-Bangladesh border in the area.

The tunnel was being constructed through a tea garden allegedly by the cattle smugglers for a long time surreptitiously in darkness of night for sometime, said the DIG.
Singh said the BSF has enhanced patrolling on the border in wake of the discovery of the tunnel.