West Bengal vhief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday announced a dual initiative aimed at strengthening border security, including the handover of a 27-km land corridor to BSF for pending fencing work and the rollout of a wider ‘detect, delete and deport’ strategy ‘to tackle illegal infiltration’.

Speaking at a press conference at Nabanna in the presence of senior Border Security Force (BSF )officials, Adhikari said the land transfer process would be completed within two weeks, reports PTI.

He described the move as the first step toward developing broader border security infrastructure along the India-Bangladesh border.

During the briefing, he also unveiled a new mechanism under which suspected infiltrators detained by police would be directly transferred to the BSF.

He said individuals belonging to communities outside the ambit of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act would be subject to detention and deportation under a system that takes effect immediately.