Pilibhit : Dispute between the 49th brigade of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) personnel and Nepalese residents has occurred close to Sundar Nagar village in Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit locale, which has prompted stress in the territory.
The dispute was reported on Tuesday. An in-charge official of SSB’s Naujalha border station, Ujjwal Singh, said the SSB had held onto a truck originating from Nepal on Monday. The truck was stacked with cosmetics esteemed at Rs 24.55 lakh. One Vikram Chakravarty of the Naujalha village was taken into custody for smuggling.
A countless number of Nepalese residents gathered on the border, apparently, to dissent against waterlogging on the no man’s land between border pillar number 17 and 18 because of a crack in the water system pipeline at Bandarbojh village.
Matters raised to a point that civilian police authority had to be brought in to control the circumstance.
The SSB officials accept that the border checks alongside waterlogging have irritated some Nepalese citizens as this was the route taken by bikers to sneak merchandise into India. It has now gotten dangerous and slippery for travel.
The locals additionally guaranteed that some Nepalese citizens snatched the cell phones of two SSB jawans within the presence of the civilian police personnel to keep them from video-recording the uproarious scene on the border. In any case, the SSB didn’t confirm the episode.
