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Indo-Bangla border does not exist for smugglers
Published on Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 21:08, Updated on Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 23:56 in 
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Hilli (West Bengal): The Indo-Bangladesh border is non-existent at many places with just a wall separating the two countries which young men scale and jump through to move from one country to another, carrying with them everything from sacks of rice to bottles of drugs.
At other places the border comes between two houses, one wall in Bangladesh and the other in India.
The smuggling run takes place on the walls on the Indo-Bangladesh border everyday.
Nobody knows who built the wall in West Bengal's border town of Hilli. But far from dividing two countries it's a wall that unites smugglers, illegal infiltrators and in recent times terrorists.
On the Indian side of the wall the houses are just an arm's length away. On the Bangladeshi side is a railway station.
Partition divided the area into two towns with the same name. What remains is a railway track on the border which runs through Bangladesh and is the lifeline of smuggling and illegal activities and is used by the terrorist for their movement.
Whenever there is a flurry of activity, it surely means that a train is pulling into the Hilli Station on the Bangladeshi side of the wall.
Every train that stops at the Hilli Station carries away smuggled Indian goods and also bring in potential infiltrators and illegal migrants.
The presence of CNN-IBN reporters initially inhibits the smugglers on the wall. But they continue to stand fearlessly on the wall waiting to receive packages and sacks from their Indian agents.
"This is a daily occurrence. It only goes down at night," says an Indian smuggler.
Almost everyone is Hilli is involved in smuggling. Women couriers wrap small packages around their sarees and take the contraband to small houses, crammed around narrow lanes and close to the border wall.
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