Personnel of the Border Security Force (BSF) apprehended a Bangladeshi national yesterday in East Jaintia Hills while he was attempting to smuggle three buffaloes over the international border.
Acting on a specific tip-off, troops of the 172nd battalion of the BSF laid a special ambush in the border area of Rattachera, leading to the detention of one Bangladeshi national identified as Md Kamil Ahmed (21), a resident of Donachera, Sylhet, along with the cattle.
Ahmed and the animals were handed over to Umkiang police station for further legal action.