UP sounds alert in 7 districts as man dies in Nepal firing in Bihar

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Police has sounded an alert in seven districts bordering Nepal after firing from the Himalayan kingdom country killed one person in Bihar’s Sitamarhi district on June 12.
The alert has been sounded in Maharajganj, Bahraich, Balrampur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Shravasti, Pilibhit, and Siddharthnagar
ADG, law and order, Prashant Kumar told TOI that police in all the seven districts are on alert and coordinating with the Sashastra Seema Bal which mans Indo-Nepal border.He said vigil has been stepped up in the border areas and police are using night vision cameras and drones. “All the district police chiefs have been asked to increase patrolling on the check-posts towards Nepal and increase the strength of cops on the borders,” he said, adding that as per Covid protocol, the movement of people and goods is already banned from Nepal.
SP Bahraich, Vipin Mishra, told TOI: “The day shelling from Nepal killed a civilian in Bihar and injured two others, we spoke to the Nepalese officials on the borders of Rupidiah to maintain dialogue,” he said. “We are maintaining vigil as per the prescribed protocol,” said SP Maharajganj Rohit Sajwan.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav tweeted: “On the one hand the government has failed to handle the Corona crisis within the country, on the other it is not coming out clean on reports of tension and intrusion in Ladakh along the India China LAC. Bitterness is also increasing in India’s relations with Nepal.”
Pillars along border missing
Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) officials said they have informed the home department and Lakhimpur Kheri DM about the “missing” pillars on the Indo-Nepal border that served as demarcation. Nepal has also inaugurated five new border outposts in the area where members of Nepal’s armed police force have been deployed.