SC upholds axing of BSF jawan who allowed influx

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday put on record what has been happening at the Indo-Bangladesh border but often denied officially — the border forces personnel taking bribes to let in illegal Bangladeshi migrants.
The issue came up before a bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and M R Shah, which was hearing an appeal filed by a BSF jawan who had challenged a Delhi HC order refusing to reinstate him. He was dismissed for allowing illegal migrants from Bangladesh into India while on border sentry duty on November 17, 2019.
It was alleged that while on daytime duty at border post at Gunarmath, “the jawan failed to perform his duty properly and was negligent enough which resulted in an exfiltration bid by Bangladeshi nationals, wherein a heavy iron ladder was placed to scale over the fence and attempt was made in his presence to cross the fence in close proximity to his place of duty. He also didn’t take any interest in apprehending these illegal migrants, which resulted in few of them managing to escape”.
The bench rejected the appeal by Jeevan Singh Bathyal and said, “This is very much happening on the Indo-Bangla border. This is a serious matter and we will leave it to the discretion of the armed forces to deal with the issue”. The SC upheld the Delhi HC order.