Lieutenant General (Retd.) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, Advisor to the Ministry of Home Affairs, revealed that India has forcibly pushed back approximately 1,500 Bangladeshis across the border in the past month. “Leaving people in forests or riverbanks during such pushbacks is completely unacceptable,” he said during a visit to the RAB-11 headquarters in Narayanganj. He emphasized that India should follow formal repatriation procedures, as Bangladesh does. Chowdhury also alleged that Rohingya refugees were being sent through certain border points, which Bangladesh has refused to accept. He noted that protests have slightly reduced the number of recent pushbacks.