India’s border with Bangladesh is once again under the scanner for smuggling. In recent months, the area near Chanralkhali village on the banks of the Kalindi river has become a hotspot for illegal trade in cattle. As night falls, hundreds of cattle are smuggled across in boats through the marshy Sunderbans into Bangladesh for slaughter. What is truly worrisome is the volume of smuggling that is taking place which has increased manifold. When Cyclone Alia struck the coast of West Bengal earli ...
