Bangladesh on Thursday claimed that it had foiled ten attempts by India to force persons across the border into its territory in the past 24 hours, Prothom Alo reported. The Indian government is yet to respond to the allegations.In a statement, Border Guard Bangladesh said that it had intensified intelligence surveillance and patrolling along frontier areas to prevent any further attempts of illegal “push-ins”, the newspaper reported.“No individual or group will be allowed to enter Bangladesh illegally through the border,” Reuters quoted the Border Guard Bangladesh as saying. It added that any attempt to violate international border management norms and bilateral understandings ​would be “strictly resisted”.Since the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam in April 2025, the police in several states ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party have been detaining Bengali-speaking persons – mostly Muslims – and asking them to prove that they are Indian.Several persons have been forced into Bangladesh after they allegedly could not prove their Indian citizenship. In some cases, persons who were mistakenly sent to Bangladesh returned to the country after state authorities in India proved that they were Indians.Scroll has also reported on several cases of persons who were forced into Bangladesh being brought back to India, as the authorities had failed to follow the process laid down by the Union home ministry for such deportations.Also Read: ‘Let me die at home’: Back from Bangladesh, an Assam woman struggles to recover from ‘pushback’Dhaka has repeatedly said that anyone identified as a Bangladeshi national should be returned through formal legal and diplomatic channels rather than being driven across ⁠the border.On May 7, the Ministry of External Affairs said that it had asked Bangladesh to verify the nationality of 2,862 suspected Bangladeshi nationals living illegally in India.Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said New Delhi expects Dhaka expedite the process of verifying the nationality of the undocumented Bangladesh migrants so that they could be repatriated “in a smooth manner”.On Thursday, the Border Guard Bangladesh also claimed that in one incident in the past 24 hours, personnel from India’s Border Security Force attempted to move around 30 to 35 persons towards Bangladeshi territory in a prison van after ​opening a border ⁠gate in the southwestern district of Jhenaidah. The border force claimed that it forced the vehicle to retreat. Incidents of alleged “push-in” attempts were also reported in Jashore, Joypurhat and Panchagarh districts, among other areas, Prothom Alo quoted the Border Guard Bangladesh as saying.Edited by Tanya Shrivastava.Also read: An ‘indigenous’ Assamese woman was pushed into Bangladesh. A year later, she is still stuck there