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Govt tells India not to repeat such incidents
Expressing serious concern over Indian security forces’ entry into the Nepali territory on Sunday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday said that it has urged the Indian authorities to make such incidents are not repeated in future.Expressing serious concern over Indian security forces’ entry into the Nepali territory on Sunday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday said that it has urged the Indian authorities to make such incidents are not repeated in future.
The Armed Police Force on Sunday morning had detained 13 Indian Sashastra Seema Bal personnel in Kechana village of Jhapa district. They were released six hours later after they confessed, during interrogation, that they had “entered the Nepali territory by mistake”. The Indian security personnel were detained at the APF Border Operation Post. Four of them were armed.
“Serious attention of the ministry has been drawn to the incident that occurred yesterday (November 29, 2015) at around 07:00am in a village at Kechana Village Development Committee Ward No 4, Khutta Muni of Jhapa District when 13 personnel of Sashastra Seema Bal of India, some of them with weapons, entered the Nepali territory. They were, later, handed over to the concerned officials of the SSB 12 Battalion, Kishangunj,” said the MoFA in a statement. “While expressing serious concern over the entry of the SSB personnel into the Nepali territory along with weapons, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has urged the Indian authorities, through the Embassy of India in Kathmandu, to ensure that such incidents do not recur in future,” the MoFA added.
The entry of 13 SSB personnel into the Nepali territory on Sunday is second such incident in the last five days.
SSB personnel from Shaileshpur Post on Wednesday morning had crossed over into Haripur of Bhantabari in Sunsari district and fired indiscriminately at Nepali citizens, injuring four. The ministry on Thursday had requested the Indian side an early investigation into the incident and strong against those involved.
CDOs raise incursion issue
BIRATNAGAR: The Chief District Officers (CDOs) of three eastern Tarai districts-Morang, Sunsari and Jhapa-have expressed their concerns to their Indian counterparts about the recent activities of India security forces.
The CDOs expressed their dissatisfactions to the Indian officials, who arrived in Biratnagar on Monday to attend a meeting of Nepal-India Joint Field Survey Teams, about Indian Sashastra Seema Bal personnel crossing over into the Nepali territory.
“We held informal talks with the Indian officials about problems along the Nepal-India border. They have expressed their commitment to correct the shortcomings,” said Morang CDO Ganesh Raj Karki. The meeting on Monday was held a day after 13 SSB personnel, four of them armed, crossed over into Kechana village in Jhapa. On Wednesday morning SSB had opened fire on Nepali citizens in the Nepali territory, injuring four.
Himanshu Sharma, District Magistrate (DM) of Arariya district, Ramchandra Dhudhu, DM of Supaul district, Ramji Sah, DM of DM of Kishanganj and Niraj Chand, chief of SSB Battalian in Bathnaha, India, attended the meeting.
Meanwhile, the meeting of the joint survey teams decided to clear the no-man’s-land, repair border pillars and set up new pillars that were destroyed.
DM Sharma said that pillar repairing and mapping would be completed within six to eight months. (PR)