Print: 28 Oct 2025
Drugs are smuggled into Bangladesh from India using various techniques sometimes under the cover of grass sacks and bicycle tubes. This time schoolboy’s tiffin box episode has added a new dimension to drug peddling.
BSF and police sources claimed drugs, counterfeit money and gold jewelleries are being smuggled into Bangladesh through the Murshidabad border day after day. And that is through the school student’s tiffin box. Fathers fill the tiffin boxes of children with bread and vegetables along with fake money and heroin, according to the Anandabazar Patrika.
Recently, several persons along with their sons have been arrested on charges of smuggling through the border areas of Murshidabad like Samserganj, Suti and Jalangi.
Police claimed that children are being used to exchange contraband in populated areas and fathers are involved in the offence.
Basically, agricultural youths and elders involve their young children in the world of crime for some extra income.
On August 29, police arrested a 15-year-old school student named Sohel Rana in Dak Bungalow area of Samserganj with 112 fake notes of Tk 500 each. Investigation revealed that Sohel’s father had brought this fake money to India crossing the border. He found his son trustworthy for changing hands. And the son’s schoolbag became a safe haven for his father's smuggling business.
In addition, in June this year, two teenagers were arrested from Bauria in Murshidabad with fake notes of Tk 3 lakh. One of them was tenth grader and the other eleventh grader. There was an attempt to smuggle the fake money using their school bags.
Police arrested three students from Sajurmore in Murshidabad. After searching the bags of three students, fake notes of Tk 2 lakh and 150 grams of heroin were found. In police questioning, the three eighth-grade students said they got the money from their respective fathers.
Out of disbelief, an investigating officer repeatedly questioned the three boys as to whether their fathers truly put fake notes and packets of heroin in their bags. The boys replied in the affirmative.
Intelligence department of BSF and state police are also worried about several such incidents of using schoolchildren for smuggling.
DIG Public Relations Officer of BSF South Bengal Frontier AK Arya said “Smugglers change their tactics every few days. We also foil their plans with caution. Currently, there is a strategy to make children shields for smuggling. We are aware of this. Several arrests have also been made.”
Superintendent of Jangipur police district VG Satish Pasumarthi said number of young traffickers is increasing in the border areas of the district. Worryingly, in most cases, it is at the hands of family members that they enter the world of crime. This trend must stop.”
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Father fills son’s tiffin box with drugs!
New techniques of smuggling in border districts
Drugs are smuggled into Bangladesh from India using various techniques sometimes under the cover of grass sacks and bicycle tubes. This time schoolboy’s tiffin box episode has added a new dimension to drug peddling.
BSF and police sources claimed drugs, counterfeit money and gold jewelleries are being smuggled into Bangladesh through the Murshidabad border day after day. And that is through the school student’s tiffin box. Fathers fill the tiffin boxes of children with bread and vegetables along with fake money and heroin, according to the Anandabazar Patrika.
Recently, several persons along with their sons have been arrested on charges of smuggling through the border areas of Murshidabad like Samserganj, Suti and Jalangi.
Police claimed that children are being used to exchange contraband in populated areas and fathers are involved in the offence.
Basically, agricultural youths and elders involve their young children in the world of crime for some extra income.
On August 29, police arrested a 15-year-old school student named Sohel Rana in Dak Bungalow area of Samserganj with 112 fake notes of Tk 500 each. Investigation revealed that Sohel’s father had brought this fake money to India crossing the border. He found his son trustworthy for changing hands. And the son’s schoolbag became a safe haven for his father's smuggling business.
In addition, in June this year, two teenagers were arrested from Bauria in Murshidabad with fake notes of Tk 3 lakh. One of them was tenth grader and the other eleventh grader. There was an attempt to smuggle the fake money using their school bags.
Police arrested three students from Sajurmore in Murshidabad. After searching the bags of three students, fake notes of Tk 2 lakh and 150 grams of heroin were found. In police questioning, the three eighth-grade students said they got the money from their respective fathers.
Out of disbelief, an investigating officer repeatedly questioned the three boys as to whether their fathers truly put fake notes and packets of heroin in their bags. The boys replied in the affirmative.
Intelligence department of BSF and state police are also worried about several such incidents of using schoolchildren for smuggling.
DIG Public Relations Officer of BSF South Bengal Frontier AK Arya said “Smugglers change their tactics every few days. We also foil their plans with caution. Currently, there is a strategy to make children shields for smuggling. We are aware of this. Several arrests have also been made.”
Superintendent of Jangipur police district VG Satish Pasumarthi said number of young traffickers is increasing in the border areas of the district. Worryingly, in most cases, it is at the hands of family members that they enter the world of crime. This trend must stop.”