Indian Border Security Force has handed over the body of a Bangladeshi man who was allegedly shot to death along the Patgram border in Lalmonirhat on early Thursday.
Mizanur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Patgram Police Station, said that the body of Sabuj Islam, 29, was returned through a flag meeting between the Border Guard Bangladesh and the BSF in the presence of Indian police at about 10:00pm on Thursday.
Members of the local BGB Border Outpost, Patgram police, and the victim’s relatives were also present during the handover, he said.
‘After completing the legal process, we handed over the body to his elder brother,’ the OC added.
Sabuj, son of Sirajul Islam of village Pochabandar under Jagatber union, had gone to the Shamshernagar frontier area with a group of farmers on early Thursday to work on their croplands. Gunshots were reportedly heard from the Indian side, and Sabuj was found critically injured moments later.
Shamshernagar Border Outpost commander Kamal Uddin, quoting local people, said that BSF members later took away the body.
