SILIGURI: The manner in which the Border Security Force (BSF) blockaded the Mahananda bridge here for four hours on October 26 ‘was one more instance of the security personnel’s high-handedness and arrogance, the victim of which are invariably the poor rural folk living along the Bangladesh border.
Dozens of cases against the BSF relating to assault, intimidation, extortion, rape and even death by beating in BSF camps have been lodged by local residents.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 15, 1991
