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India’s own Border Security Force (BSF) has been implicated in smuggling cattle from India to Bangladesh in exchange for bribes, according to an investigation by the country’s Central Intelligence Agency (CBI). For this reason, BSF is known to help the cattle smuggling ring by turning cows into calves on paper and pen.
Unscrupulous BSF and Indian customs officials made millions of rupees by helping smuggle cattle. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) learned of this after investigating the smuggling of cattle across the Indo-Bangladesh border. Various government officials from various departments in India, including BSF and customs, were involved in the smuggling. The IWC has launched an investigation by filing an FIR against her for cattle smuggling into the state alleging corruption.
An FIR has been filed against the BSF commander, Satish Kumar, one of the main defendants in the case. From December 2015 to April 2017, Satish Kumar was Commander of the 37th BSF Battalion in the state of West Bengal.
During the 17 months of Satish Kumar’s tenure as commander, his forces seized around 20,000 cows on the Bangladesh border in Malda and Murshidabad districts. But the confiscated cow was being calved on official BSF documents. After that, the ‘calf’ would be auctioned at a lower price in the local market. Murshidabad smugglers would buy the cows at a lower price at auction. The cows would then be smuggled across the border back to Bangladesh. The BSF would get 2,000 rupees per cow. And he got 500 rupees in customs. Researchers have come to know this information.
On Tuesday, CBI’s Kolkata DIG Akhilesh Kumar Singh submitted an FIR (RC 102020A0019). Satish Kumar has been charged in the FIR presented by the IWC. Satish is not alone in the FIR hosted by CBI’s anti-corruption wing. His son, Bishu Sheikh aka Murshidabad, businessman Enamul Haque, the head of the cattle smuggling ring, his accomplices Anarul Sheikh and Golam Mostafa are among the unidentified government workers and others.
The IWC on Wednesday searched 13 locations in Calcutta, Salt Lake, Rajarhat, Malda, Murshidabad and Vindhya for a cattle smuggling ring. Outside of West Bengal, IWC officials searched Amritsar, Ghaziabad and Raipur. Satish’s house in Salt Lake was searched. Later that night, the CBI sealed the house. Satish is currently working in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. Detectives also conducted a search there. The CBI also raided his home in Ghaziabad. Detectives also searched the homes of two of her union’s students, Golam Mustafa and Anarul Sheikh, in the village of Enamul in Murshidabad’s Kulgachhia.
Another BSF commander, Matthew Jibu, was captured in 2016 with a large sum of unaccounted for money. The investigation revealed that he had received a large sum of money as a bribe from the cattle smuggling syndicate. Enamul Haque, a businessman from Murshidabad, was arrested at the time after questioning Jibu. Later, Enamul was granted bail in the case. But the name of Jibu and Satish Kumar appeared in his statement.
The CBI launched a preliminary investigation against Satish in 2016 to find out the source of the bribery. According to the investigation, Bishu Syndicate has smuggled thousands of cows in collusion with BSF. The border was opened to large amounts of money for the smuggling of cattle.
Approximately 20,000 cows were seized by the BSF, but no vehicles or smugglers were ever captured. CBI investigators say that when the car was impounded, the question arose as to who owned the car and where the cows were being loaded from. They did not leave the source anywhere to deal with the traffickers.
In addition to BSF and Customs, the names of many influential people in the state of West Bengal have also appeared in the preliminary investigation. Those influential people, like BSF and customs officials, have benefited from the cattle smuggling syndicate. Source: Anandabazar.
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