An FIR has been lodged against Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) by its Indian counterpart Border Security Force (BSF) over the killing one of its jawans earlier this week, a senior police officer said. A Bangladeshi border guard on Thursday fired from his AK-47 rifle during a ‘flag meeting’ along the international boundary in West Bengal, killing BSF head constable Vijay Bhan Singh (51) and injuring another jawan, Rajvir Yadav. The BSF officials, too, confirmed that police have lodged an FIR against the BGB. We didn’t fire a single bullet,” a senior BSF official said. A senior BSF officer in Delhi said on Friday that the troops “did not try to forcibly take away the lone fisherman from the custody of Border Guard Bangladesh.

Source: The Hindu October 19, 2019 09:22 UTC