New hot spots along Bangla border.

Byline: Nirmalya Banerjee

: Ever since the missing car of Gaighata MLA Jyoti Priya Mallick was traced in Bangladesh earlier this month, Border Security Force personnel are furiously digging up the numerous dirt tracks across the border in south Bengal.

For, the smuggled car was driven to Bangladesh not through any customs check post, but through a kuccha road from West Bengal to Bangladesh. "It was a revelation to us that even such roads can be used for crossing the border illegally," a senior BSF official says. "We want to make these tracks impassable."

It is a cause of worry because Inter Services Intelligence agents cross the border to enter India.

North 24 Parganas is a vulnerable area where a few ISI agents have been nabbed. After Wednesday's serial blasts in Ahmedabad, the West Bengal government requested the BSF to step up vigil on the border.

Incidents of ISI agents crossing the border in north Bengal have also increased after the Jamaat-e-Islamisupported BNP government came to power in Bangladesh, Intelligence sources in Siliguri say.

North-East militant groups like United ...