Law enforcers have been put on highest alert to check smuggling of rawhides of sacrificial animals.
The Home Ministry has asked the law enforcement agencies, especially Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to remain on high alert in border areas to stop smuggling out of the raw materials of the leather industry, BSS reported.
It also asked the law enforcers not to allow trucks loaded with hides and skin of the sacrificial animals to leave the city for seven days from Eid-ul-Azha.
Check-posts have already been set up at strategic points across the country including the entry and exit points to stop the smuggling of rawhides.
Police and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) are guarding the check-posts round the clock.
Security measures have been intensified at different strategic points of the country especially 15 points along the border areas with India from where rawhide of sacrificial animals could be smuggled out after the Eid-ul-Azha.
Over 10% skin and hides of the sacrificial animals is smuggled out every year through the border areas.