Frontier Fighters
Yunus Dar
At a press conference on December 17, Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) Director General (DG) Kumar Rajesh Chandra said that 59 nationals of Pakistan, China, Bangladesh and the US were caught trying to enter India through the Indo-Nepal border in 2019.
Chandra said the increase in the number of such infiltrations through the Nepal border was a result of stringent security measures along the Indo-Pakistan border to check illegal activities including terrorism and supply of fake currency notes. Also, increased vigil on the Indo-Pakistan border after the abrogation of Article 370 had forced infiltrators from Pakistan to take the Nepal route. In 2018, the SSB arrested 28 infiltrators, and handed them to the police.
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