On October 5, Border Security Force (BSF) recovered five country made 12 bore single barrel guns and three cartridges from Meghalaya Bangladesh border area in Shella in East Khasi Hills District, The Shillong Times. BSF in a statement said that force got information about concentration of a few arms smugglers who were to deliver arms to their associates in Bangladesh through some unknown cattle smugglers. BSF also stated that ‘In view of the forthcoming general election in Bangladesh, there are likely chances of smuggling of arms from India to Bangladesh in the coming days’.