The entire stretch of the Garo Hills border, covering South and West Garo Hills districts, has been sealed with the BSF on high alert to prevent the situation in that country from spiralling into this side.
“We will show maximum restraint and are in defence preparedness but if offence is targetted on us we can retaliate,” informed a senior BSF officer monitoring the situation at the border.
All commandants of the battalions deployed in Garo Hills have stationed themselves at the border to monitor the ongoing crisis in Bangladesh.
Meanwhile, BSF sources inform that many of the BDR Border Outposts (BOPs) adjoining Garo Hills are witnessing brisk fortification as troops have dug in against a possible strike by the Bangladesh army. There has been little or no border patrolling activity by the BDR in the last two days.
BSF sources inform that BDR troops have dug trenches and put obstacles all along the approach road to their BOPs in anticipation of the arrival of the army.
There have been reports of the Bangladesh Army taking control of the strategic Mymensing town near the border with India to contain the BDR mutiny from spreading into the border areas.
The main road from Dalu in Garo Hills to Mymensing in Bangladesh is reportedly open to traffic but interior roads leading to BDR BOPs are said to wear a deserted look. Traffic has been very thin all along the border areas except for farmers tending to their crops in the open fields.