Sashastra Seema Bal

Senior IPS officer Amrit Mohan Prasad was on Friday appointed as the Director General, Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), according to an official order.

The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), which guards the India-Nepal border, suspended an inspector and a jawan for alleged dereliction of duty in checking the bus on which Pakistani national Seema Haider entered India, official sources said on Thursday.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah's scheduled visit to Sashastra Seema Bal's Patna Frontier on Sunday has been cancelled, a statement said.

International Borders with Nepal, Pakistan among others have been put on alert after the Centre circulated a message to the Border Security Force and the Sashastra Seema Bal considering the possibility that Amritpal Singh might escape country.

The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) arrested a Chinese national while he was trying to cross the India-Nepal border here without any valid documents.

According to Union Home Ministry, 1,13,208 youths were recruited in the Central Reserve Police Force in the last five years, 29,243 were recruited in the Sashastra Seema Bal and 17,482 were hired by the Border Security Force.

Four persons were arrested by Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and Uttar Pradesh police in Sonauli area near the Indo-Nepal border and recovered heroin worth around Rs 1.65 crore, an official said on Tuesday.

Three people were arrested with heroin on Sunday in two separate incidents from Sonauli town on the Indo-Nepal border here, by Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and Police, a senior officer said.

Last month, the agency had booked an employee of the Ministry of Railways for allegedly swindling over Rs 45 lakhs from job aspirants assuring a porter job in the East Central Railways.

Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) chief Sanjay Arora on Wednesday was given additional charge of the post of Director General Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).

Days after 42 people were rescued from human traffickers, a senior Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) officer has claimed that most of the people in Assam are migrating to other states in search of better avenues rather than being trafficked.

The government has sanctioned a dozen fresh battalions of the Sashastra Seema Bal or SSB, comprising over 13,000 personnel for the force that guards the Nepal and Bhutan borders, to "fortify" defences along these fronts including the tri-junction area in Sikkim that adjoins Bhutan and Tibet, news agency PTI reported quoting officials said.

The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) today arrested a man from the Indo-Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh's Mahraganj with 107 grams of heroin valued at around Rs 1 crore in the international market, officials said.

A special ceremony was held to honour two dogs of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) on their retirement.

Four Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) personnel have been awarded the police medal for gallantry (PMG) this Republic Day for killing a Maoist commander in Jharkhand who was wanted for ambushing and killing an superintendent of police-rank official in 2013, officials said.

Senior IPS officer Amrit Mohan Prasad was on Friday appointed as the Director General, Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), according to an official order.

The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), which guards the India-Nepal border, suspended an inspector and a jawan for alleged dereliction of duty in checking the bus on which Pakistani national Seema Haider entered India, official sources said on Thursday.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah's scheduled visit to Sashastra Seema Bal's Patna Frontier on Sunday has been cancelled, a statement said.

International Borders with Nepal, Pakistan among others have been put on alert after the Centre circulated a message to the Border Security Force and the Sashastra Seema Bal considering the possibility that Amritpal Singh might escape country.

The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) arrested a Chinese national while he was trying to cross the India-Nepal border here without any valid documents.

According to Union Home Ministry, 1,13,208 youths were recruited in the Central Reserve Police Force in the last five years, 29,243 were recruited in the Sashastra Seema Bal and 17,482 were hired by the Border Security Force.

Four persons were arrested by Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and Uttar Pradesh police in Sonauli area near the Indo-Nepal border and recovered heroin worth around Rs 1.65 crore, an official said on Tuesday.

Three people were arrested with heroin on Sunday in two separate incidents from Sonauli town on the Indo-Nepal border here, by Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and Police, a senior officer said.

Last month, the agency had booked an employee of the Ministry of Railways for allegedly swindling over Rs 45 lakhs from job aspirants assuring a porter job in the East Central Railways.

Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) chief Sanjay Arora on Wednesday was given additional charge of the post of Director General Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).

Days after 42 people were rescued from human traffickers, a senior Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) officer has claimed that most of the people in Assam are migrating to other states in search of better avenues rather than being trafficked.

The government has sanctioned a dozen fresh battalions of the Sashastra Seema Bal or SSB, comprising over 13,000 personnel for the force that guards the Nepal and Bhutan borders, to "fortify" defences along these fronts including the tri-junction area in Sikkim that adjoins Bhutan and Tibet, news agency PTI reported quoting officials said.

The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) today arrested a man from the Indo-Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh's Mahraganj with 107 grams of heroin valued at around Rs 1 crore in the international market, officials said.

A special ceremony was held to honour two dogs of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) on their retirement.

Four Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) personnel have been awarded the police medal for gallantry (PMG) this Republic Day for killing a Maoist commander in Jharkhand who was wanted for ambushing and killing an superintendent of police-rank official in 2013, officials said.