Agartala: NREGA workers have excavated about 386 empty case and two live cartridges of 303 guns while digging the earth in the field of Rehman Maishaan in Srimanthapur area along Tripura-Bangladesh border on Saturday.
Border Security Force (BSF) personnel have taken the custody of the cartridges.
BSF Spokesperson B S Rawat asserted that initial investigation revealed that the empty case of cartridges were used during 1971 Bangladesh war liberation. However, the seizures to be sent to forensic laboratory for further investigation.
According to report, as many as 18 NREGA labourers were digging up mud along the border but about two feet cutting of the mud, they noticed the cases of cartridge and informed 29 battalion of BSF. In last year, labourers had also dug out about 700 empty cartridges of Self Loading Rifles (SLR) and pistol near Raj Bhawan of Agartala.
The cartridges were recovered at the construction ground of a tennis complex in the area. Tripura had several camps of liberation soldiers during Bangladesh liberation war in 1971. Bangladeshi soldiers had fought against Pakistani military forces from Indian base camps and most of them were in Western part of Tripura. According to report, all the cartridges were marked PK and were manufactured between 1963 and 1970. In 1971, Tripura accommodated 16 lakh refugees which were more than the state’s own population at that time. Many camps of liberation liberation soldiers too had mushroomed during that period. (UNI)
