AGARTALA, December 18 (TIWN): The Border Security Force (BSF) is taking stern action to curb to the northeast India militants groups taking shelter in Bangladesh and we have also asked Bangladeshi counterparts to destroy militants' camps and hideouts within the latter’s territory, said a high level BSF official.

Earlier taking to TIWN Inspector General of BSF Tripura frontier B.N. Sharma said that around 32 camps and hideouts of northeast India militant groups still exist in different parts of Bangladesh. We have asked the BGB ( Border Guard Bangladesh) to dismantle these camps and to take action against the terrorists. 

 He said the terrorist outfits of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Manipur and Nagaland have set up their camps and hideouts in different parts of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) (in southeast Bangladesh) and Moulvibazar and Sylhet districts (under Sylhet division in northeastern Bangladesh).   

The insurgents were using Tripura-Mizoram-Bangladesh tri-junction as corridor, security agencies including Assam Riffles and Tripura State Riffles (TSR) have been trying hard to stop infiltration of militants from across the border, the IG further mentioned.

"After Bangladesh security forces undertook occasional crackdowns against the northeast India militants, some terrorists have taken shelter in the jungles of neighbouring Myanmar," he added. During the past few months, the Bangladesh Rapid Action Battalion uncovered a huge cache of sophisticated arms, including anti-tank weapons and AK series rifles, in Satchharhi jungles in the northeastern district of Habiganj, bordering India's Tripura.

Four Indian northeastern states of Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Assam share an 1,880-km border with Bangladesh. The mountainous terrain, dense forests and other hindrances make the unfenced borders porous and vulnerable, enabling illegal immigrants and intruders cross over without any hurdle. 
India is erecting a fence and putting up floodlights along the 4,096-km India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram to check trans-border movement of militants, and to check border crimes.