Kolkata : The number of illegal Bangladeshi nationals attempting to cross the India-Bangladesh border in South Bengal has risen sharply in recent weeks, a surge that is being linked to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, a senior BSF official said.

According to BSF officials, the flow of undocumented Bangladeshi immigrants trying to return home through unfenced stretches in North 24 Parganas and Malda districts has seen what an officer described as a “quantum jump” compared to the last two years.

“Earlier, such detections barely entered double digits. Now the figure is consistently in the three-digit bracket every day,” the senior BSF officer told PTI.

He said while some reports have quoted daily numbers of around 500, the actual figure is “slightly lower

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