SSB alerts all posts along Nepal after COVID-19 intel on arms, FICN smuggler

The SSB has alerted all its units along the Nepal border following an intelligence input that a notorious arms and fake currency smuggler may try to infiltrate people into India who could be infected with coronavirus, officials said on Friday.

They said the border-guarding force has also informed its Nepalese counterpart, the Armed Police Force, after the SSB's 47th battalion based at Ramgarhwa in Bihar's East Champaran district informed the local administration of such a possibility early this week.

"All our units all along the 1,751-km-long Nepal border were already on alert since cross-border movement was stopped due to the ongoing lockdown enforced in the country to contain the spread of COVID-19," a senior Sashastra Seema Bal official said.

"With this new modus operandi being detected and intelligence generated, we have asked all the units to be cautious."
The official said the Commandant of the battalion at Ramgarhwa has informed the local administration and intelligence agencies about the activities of the Nepal-based arms and fake Indian currency notes smuggler Jalim Mukhiya and his "plans to spread coronavirus in India."