Checking hide smuggling
Highest alert along frontier
RAJSHAHI: District administrations have asked all law-enforcement agencies especially the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to check smuggling out of raw hide of sacrificial animals through the borders in Rajshahi, Chapainawabanj, Naogaon and Joypurhat districts.
The BGB local authorities have also instructed all the border outposts to remain on highest alert along the frontiers so that not a single hide is smuggled out from the country.
We are pledged bound to prevent hide smuggling. The government has a clear-cut instruction in this regard, said Helal Mahmud Sharif, deputy commissioner of Rajshahi.
BGB official said all the border outposts have been kept on highest alert to prevent hide smuggling.
Besides, all the highway check-posts will enhance their vigilance in this regard. Instruction of seizing the hide-laden trucks from one district to another has been given to all the checkpoints.
He said they would prevent hide smuggling at any cost.
Divisional Commissioner Nur-Ur-Rahman said: We have received specific instructions from the Ministry of Home and the Commerce also in this regard.
Necessary directions were also given to the law-enforcers to avert any sort of area-based violence that might be erupted centering hide purchasing and selling.
Meanwhile, Asaduzzaman Asad, district unit president of Hide Traders Association, today alleged that a syndicate has already been formed to smuggle out hide of sacrificial animal through the local border from the Eid-day.
He urged all the authorities concerned to adopt appropriate measures for checking hide smuggling.
