Bangladesh has claimed that it thwarted attempts by India’s Border Security Force to force at least 30 persons into its territory through four border points from Thursday night to Friday morning, Prothom Alo reported.The BSF’s attempts were foiled by personnel from the Border Guards Bangladesh, who were assisted by residents of the area, the newspaper reported. The 30 individuals were later seen waiting on the zero line between the two countries with their luggage.The Indian government is yet to respond to the allegations.The Border Guards Bangladesh claimed that the BSF tried to force persons, including women and children, through border points in the Aditmari, Hatibandha and Patgram upazilas in the Lalmonirhat district in northern Bangladesh, Prothom Alo reported. They also claimed that BSF personnel were confronted by Border Guards Bangladesh members, leading to a standoff along the border.In the Aditmari upazila, Border Guards Bangladesh personnel reportedly identified 12 “suspected individuals” near two border pillars. They retreated to the Indian side after they were issued warnings through hand-held microphones, according to the newspaper.The Bangladeshi security force sought a flag meeting with the BSF’s Raniganj-3 battalion, but did not receive a response, according to Prothom Alo.On Thursday as well, Bangladesh claimed that it foiled ten attempts within 24 hours by India to force persons across the border into its territory.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.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 Bangladeshi migrants so that they could be repatriated “in a smooth manner”.Edited by Sneha. Also read:‘Let me die at home’: Back from Bangladesh, an Assam woman struggles to recover from ‘pushback’An ‘indigenous’ Assamese woman was pushed into Bangladesh. A year later, she is still stuck there