New Delhi: A high-level delegation of Bangladesh Border Guards (BGB) is set to arrive in India on Wednesday for holding talks with their counterparts, Border Security Force (BSF), the first meeting between the two sides after an Indian soldier was killed near the border in October.
The 11-member delegation of the BGB will be here for six days and will be led by their Director General Maj Gen Shafeenul Islam. The talks will begin from December 26 at a BSF camp in south-west Delhi.
Official sources said the BSF will “strongly” take up the issue of the killing of their 51-year-old head constable Vijay Bhan Singh and injury to constable Rajvir Yadav in firing by a BGB trooper near the Kakmarichar border post in Mursihdabad of West Bengal.
“This incident had come across as a shocker between the two friendly nations. Not a single bullet has been fired between the two sides for decades. We have been informed by our counterparts that court martial proceedings have been launched against the BGB trooper, who is accused to have killed our jawan while two others have been transferred out. The meeting will take this issue forward for a justifiable conclusion,” a senior officer said.
A BSF spokesperson said the 10-member BSF delegation will be headed by its Director General VK Johri and will have officials from the Union home and external affairs ministry. (PTI)
