NEW DELHI, Dec 26: Strict vigil by the Border Security Force personnel prevented Pakistan from trying to send infiltrators and terrorists into India through the Gujarat and Rajasthan borders this year. It was forced to concentrate only on the Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab borders to send the terrorists across the border.
The BSF in a report for the current year said Pakistan in the year 2020 tried multiple routes for infiltration apart from sending terrorists through borders in Jammu and Kashmir or Punjab only. It made attempts from Gujarat and Rajasthan borders as well to infiltrate terrorists into the Indian side but the round the clock strict vigil by the BSF and regularly updating positions as per the intelligence input, kept the Pakistanis at bay.
Data compiled by the BSF also says that the number of infiltration has increased. Last year, there were no incidents of attempts of infiltration from Gujarat and Rajasthan borders recorded by the BSF till the first week of November.
Interestingly, the Kashmir Frontier of BSF has recorded just one infiltration in comparison with a previous year where 4 infiltrations took place till the first week of November.
This year, the Rajasthan and Gujarat frontier of the BSF has recorded infiltration attempts in August and September. “We have seen incidents of infiltration attempt s from Gujarat and Rajasthan borders as well this year. Last year, no such incidents were recorded in the same period of time,” a senior BSF official said.
BSF officials said 11 infiltration incidents were recorded this year till the first week of November from Jammu, Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat borders. The highest 4 incidents each happened from Jammu and Punjab borders.
In November, a 150-metre long underground tunnel suspected to be used by terrorists for infiltration was detected by the BSF and J&K police near International Border in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba after four terrorists were gunned down by the security forces at Nagrota.
(Manas Dasgupta)