By March 31, transfer land for fencing of border: HC to Bengal
Times of India | 31 January 2026
Kolkata: Calcutta high court has directed Bengal govt to hand over to BSF by March 31 land parcels earmarked and paid for by the Union govt across nine border districts for a project to secure the porous India-Bangladesh boundary with barbed-wire fencing.
The order came on a PIL filed by a former Deputy Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Subrata Saha (retd), flagging what he termed a "grave threat" to national security from unfenced stretches of the international border in Bengal.
At the previous hearing, the division bench of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen had asked the principal secretary of the state land acquisition department to file an affidavit on the pending land transfer.
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