Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained 20 Bangladeshi nationals while they were going to India illegally through Putkhali border in Benapole on Wednesday night.

The border guards, acting on a tip-off, raided the area at around 10:00pm and arrested 14 men, five women and a child as they were going to India without legal documents, said Jalal Uddin, Putkhali BGB camp commander.