Two persons, including a BSF jawan, were killed and 10 injured in a clash between the border guards and villagers at South Ramnagar near Agartala.
The clash took place when the BSF personnel were chasing some people alleged to be smugglers during a routine patrol in the area near the India-Bangladesh border on Friday night, BSF DIG B.S. Rawat has said.
Among the injured were nine villagers and a BSF man, the BSF DIG said.
When the BSF jawans started chasing the group, villagers attacked the securitymen with lathis, the DIG said.
The BSF initially fired in the air to disperse the mob and then opened fire in “self defence” in which a villager, Ismail Mia, was killed and nine others were injured, the DIG said.
Sandeep Kumar, a BSF man, was then lynched by the villagers, the DIG said.
IG (Police control) N.C. Das also confirmed that a villager and a BSF jawan were killed in the violence.
The injured were rushed to G.B. hospital where nine of them were admitted. The injured BSF jawan was discharged after first-aid, hospital sources said.
Meanwhile, Bhanu Mia, the brother of the villager who was killed in BSF action, in a complaint lodged with the West Agartala police station said that the border guards opened fire after picking up a quarrel with them when they were resting near a pond.
Magisterial probe ordered The Tripura government on Saturday announced a magisterial inquiry into the clash.
District Magistrate of West Tripura district, Abhishek Singh, who visited the scene on Saturday, said a magisterial level inquiry was ordered into the incident.
“Inquiry has already started and I am doing it. Result would be known after the inquiry is over. Stern action would be taken if anybody is found guilty. No one would be spared,” Mr. Singh told PTI.
Security was beefed up with the deployment of Tripura State Rifles (TSR) in the area.
