The Border Security Force (BSF) has seized cosmetics and medicines worth Rs 23.25 lakh near the International Border (IB) in South Bengal frontier. The consignment was being smuggled to Bangladesh. The border force seized the items after a raid conducted around 5.30 p.m. on Sunday following a specific intelligence input received by 158 Battalion.

Cosmetics, medicines and miscellaneous items worth Rs 23,25,505 were being smuggled to Bangladesh through Lake Bour under Border Outpost Haridaspur in North 24 Parganas border district, the BSF said. The BSF troopers saw some persons near the IB along the bank of Lake Bour during a search operation when they were trying to pull some bags they had dropped into the river towards the Bangladesh side.