According to a police order issued late Friday night, the battalion headquarters has been advised to ensure maximum mobilisation of the forces personnel at the battalion headquarters.
The closing ceremony of the 2nd All India Police Handball Cluster 2025-26, organised by the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), was held on Friday at the Frontier Headquarters, SSB, Siliguri, marking the successful conclusion of a prestigious national-level sporting event from 19 to 23 January.
Director General of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) Sanjay Singhal on Thursday formally unveiled the official mascot, ‘Tejo’, of the Second All India Police Handball Cluster during a curtain-raiser ceremony at the SSB’s Siliguri headquarters.
The arrested Bangladeshi nationals have been identified as Md Shanihur Rahman, Md Sobaij and Md Firoz.
Official sources said some 80 jail escapees who were released by Gen Z priotesters in September this year, fled across the border and tried to find sanctuary in India, some of them under asssumed aliases.
The arrests come amid a major security alert along the 1,751 km Indo-Nepal border after thousands of inmates reportedly broke out from 18 jails in Nepal over the past few days during the violence in the Himalayan country.
The detainees were handed over to the police at Bhittha and Surasand police stations in Sitamarhi.
The Uttarakhand government has alerted its border district administrations against the activities of anti-social elements and directed real-time monitoring of social media platforms, in view of the ongoing political crisis in neighbouring Nepal.
SSB Assistant Commandant Sanjeev Kumar said he is personally monitoring the situation and that patrolling along the border has been intensified as a precautionary measure.
Security forces have arrested an Indonesian woman at the Indo-Nepal border who has allegedly been residing in Mumbai for the past 10 years using forged identity documents.
