The interrogation of a Bangladeshi couple arrested by the Borivli police during a routine check on Saturday revealed how cow herders are assisting Bangladeshi infiltrators to enter India disguised as shepherds along the Hakimpur border. Hakimpur is a village in West Bengal, that’s located on the India-Bangladesh border. The border is marked by a narrow body of water that’s less than 50 metres wide.

Under the guidance of Senior Inspector Maloji Shinde and Police Inspector Pradeep Kale, a team led by PSI Pramod Nimbalkar, attached to the Anti-Terror Cell (ATC) of Borivli police station, arrested 30-year-old Bangladeshi national Erasul Shaikh from Borivli market. Later, his wife Priya Shaikh, 29, was also taken into custody.