TDS Desk:

India’s Border Security Force (BSF) on Monday issued a high alert across all its formations along the 4,096 km border with Bangladesh in the wake of the developments in the neighbouring country, BSF officials said.

BSF’s acting Director General Daljit Singh Chawdhary and other senior commanders reached Kolkata to take stock of the security situation, they said.

The force has directed all its field commanders to be “on the ground” and “deploy all personnel on border duty immediately”, said a senior officer, reports India Times.

The leaves of all the personnel posted along the Bangladesh border were cancelled in the last few weeks after Bangladesh witnessed massive violent protests and now all units have been asked to “acquire an all alert posture”, he said.