The Forest Department has arrested four Indian fishermen with their trawler on the charge of illegal fishing and border crossing at the western Sundarbans in Satkhira. The Satkhira range forest officials said that their Pushpakati patrol team arrested the Indians — Bikash Mandal, Sikdar Krishna, Alok Sardar and Gurudas Sardar — at Pakratoli Char at about 5:00pm on Saturday. All of them are from North Twenty Four Parganas of the Indian state of West Bengal. The Burigoalini station officer Sultan Ahmed confirmed the arrest of the Indian nationals and the seizure of their trawler with fishing material. The forest officials said they carried out the raid on information that the Indian fishermen had been catching fishes and collecting other resources for a long time. On Sunday, the officials said the four fishermen were prosecuted under the Forest Act and sent to the jail through the formalities at a court in Satkhira. On August 6, the Bangladesh Coast Guard authorities said that they had detained 13 Indian fishermen on a trawler in the Bay of Bengal near the west side of Mongla within the Bangladesh water territory. All the detainees are the residents of Sitarampur in Patharpratima in Kolkata.
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