The incident unfolded around 10 pm on January 3, near the BSF border outpost Betai. The BSF intelligence branch alerted on-duty jawans about smugglers bringing foreign money into their area. The vigilant jawans, with the intel, set up an ambush at the smuggling spot.
On Thursday, the Border Security Force (BSF) thwarted an attempt to illegally smuggle foreign currency valued at Rs 1.39 crore at the International Border in West Bengal. The intelligence unit of the BSF alerted the patrolling jawans about a possible smuggling operation near the Betai outpost in West Bengal’s Nadia district, it said in a released statement.
“BSF personnel foiled an attempt to smuggle foreign currency at the International Border Of Dist- Nadia(West Bengal) in their area of responsibility and seized 1,66,900 US Dollars when smugglers were trying to smuggle this amount of foreign currency from India to Bangladesh. The value of the seized US Dollars in Indian currency is Rs 1,39,01,101,” said a senior BSF officer.
