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The incidents occurred within a fortnight of historic visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who was accorded an unprecedented and overwhelmed reception in Agartala. Home Ministry at New Delhi reportedly sought a detailed report on events of Friday morning at Dhanpur, also assembly constituency of Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar.

Reports said two armed BGB soldiers entered Indian territory at Tarapukur around 7AM chasing a few smugglers who skipped them without paying the negotiated bribe. As soon as they reached house of Shah Alam he started screaming out of fear inviting ire of the BGB men.

BGB soldier who was later identified as Lutfur Rahman opened fire from his assault rifle targeting Alam killing him at the scene. The deceased received three shots in his chest and other members of the house escaped stray bullets.

The firing invited huge gathering of villagers who turned onto the BGB soldiers as they started running back towards the border. Lutfur fell down, but the other solider managed to take away his service weapon.

Angry villagers caught Lutfur and roughed him up before the BSF soldiers arrived in his rescue and took him to a camp. The BGB soon started showing anger from other side of the border and refused to respond to repeated requests from the BSF for a flag meeting.

Soon BGB kidnapped five Indian farmers from Tarapur locality in Dhanpur in retaliation of detention of a BGB soldier. Around afternoon BGB agreed to attend flag meeting, but it failed even after deliberations between the two forces for hours on issue of unconditional release of detained BGB man and Indian farmers.

Meanwhile Tripura police have made requests to BSF to access to detained BGB soldier to book him under IPC sections on charge of trespass, threat and unprovoked firing on Indian nationals killing one.