Bangladesh doubles bounty absconding border guards

The Bangladeshi Government has doubled the amount of bounty for tipping off the whereabouts of the absconding border guards who were involved in the February 25-26 border force mutiny, private news agency UNB reported on Sunday.

The Government earlier on April 7 put a bounty of 50,000 taka (about 714.3 U.S. dollars) for arrest of each head of the runaways who were involved in the bloody mutiny at the headquarters of paramilitary border force Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) in capital Dhaka on February 25-26.

“A sum of 100,000 taka (about 1428.6 U.S. dollars) will be given in cash award if anyone can help the local police or any law-enforcing agency arrest any of the absconding BDR members,” an official of the Home Ministry was quoted by the UNB as saying.

“The name and identity of the informer will remain a secret,” said senior information officer of the Home Ministry Md Shahinoor Miah.

DHAKA, Xinhua