BSF deployed along Indo-Nepal border in UP

Siddharthnagar, Apr 26 (UNI) In wake of fluid political situation in the Himalayan kingdom, the Centre has deployed three Border Security Force (BSF) companies along the Indo-Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh.

BSF has been deployed in Maharajganj, Siddharthnagar, Balrampur, Shravasti and Bahraich districts under Gorakhpur Zone in the state.

Zonal IG Vinay Kumar Verma told UNI here today, the Union Home Ministry took the decision keeping in mind the sensitiveness at the border and apprehensions of infiltration by Nepali maoists.

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