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The Tripura Frontier of the Border Security Force (BSF) honoured it’s Assistant Commandant Jeevan Kumar on Wednesday, nine years later his brutal death by the Bangladesh Rifles (now Border Guards Bangladesh).
On April 16, 2005, Kumar had been taken into the Bangladeshi territory and knifed before being shot dead. A group of smugglers had pulled him into Bangladeshi territory and handed him over to the Bangladesh Rifles. The body was returned after a fierce exchange of fire between the two border forces. The BSF, in order to commemorate him, has named a road ‘Jeevan Path’ after the martyr in the frontier headquarters at Salbagan in Agartala.
B.N. Sharma, BSF’s Tripura Frontier Inspector General, and officers planted 250 saplings in memory of Mr. Kumar, who had been in charge of the outpost at Lankamura, a few kilometres west of Agartala. A constable who was also taken away survived but was severely wounded. Under the leadership of Mr. Kumar, the troops had taken tough measures against smuggling and cross-border crime. Sources state that the slain officer was honoured now at the instruction of the top BSF brass.
