New Delhi, December 10: Manipur situation is worse than Kashmir , said BSF Director General A..KMitra.

He further informed that BSF is planning to deploy more personnel along the Indo-Bangla border as investigations into terrorist attacks in the country have found that militants are "freely using" the porous frontier to enter India .

The force feels that the 4095-km-long border is going to be a "problem area" in the coming days as despite the best efforts BSF was finding it difficult to stop infiltration fully, given the challenging nature of the region.

Figures available with the BSF show that 8,196 persons were nabbed along the Indo-Bangla border while trying to enter the country this year as against 11,000 last year, a dip which officials claim was due to the tight vigil.

"Infiltration and cattle smuggling continuing to happen along the Indo-Bangla border in varying degrees...We used to have 50 battalions there.

Now it stands at 66 and we propose to induct few more battalions," he added.

Initially it was economic migration, but of late investigations into various terror operations taking place in the hinterland has found that Bangladesh border was being freely used by militants to enter India, he said.

"That makes the illegal migration problem a little more serious," he said while addressing the annual press conference ahead of the force's 41st raising day.

Though infiltration and border crimes have come down, drug smuggling has gone up and the very induction of more troops was an indicator that it was a "much larger problem" than it was perceived to be, he said.

Police arrest two students: Guwahati police have arrested two students of Class IX of the Don Bosco School at Saokuchi in Guwahati and the headmaster of a private school for their involvement in leaking question paper of Class IX annual examination.

The student duo was identified as Kunal Debnath and Biswajit Saha of the Don Bosco School, police said while adding that the principal is Ashok Chakraborty of the Progressive English Medium school in the city.

Additional Superintendent of Police (city) Rajen Singh said that all the three were arrested on Sunday and forwarded to custody.

"We received information that the question paper of general science of class IX is leaked.

The informer also gave us a phone number of a student who is involved in the crime," Singh said.

"We tracked the mobile number and arrested Biswajit Saha.

Later on the lead of Saha, we have arrested Kunal Debnath," he said and added that both of them are the students of Don Bosco school at city's Saokuchi area.

"The duo confessed during interrogation that they had been given the question paper by Chakraborty," said the Addl.

SP while adding that Chakraborty was arrested on the basis of the confession of the duo.

All the three was arrested and sent to police custody after producing in the court.

Further investigation was on in this regard, he added.

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