Habiul Biswas and his wife Sajda Biswas quietly step down from a vehicle and walk towards a row of closed shops near Hakimpur border checkpost in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district.
The check post, a couple of kilometres from the zero line, is heavily guarded by Border Security Force (BSF) personnel and monitored by surveillance cameras. Every villager — whether on foot, by bicycle or by motorbike — is frisked before being allowed through.
Polythene sheets have been laid out in front of the closed shops, and just a couple of hours ago, a group of 20 to 30 Bangladesh nationals had assembled at the spot just befo
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