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Khojis in Rajasthan: BSF Sherlock Holmes checking infiltration - The Asian Age
Rahul Bedi (Inter Press Service)
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30 April 1997
Title : Khojis in Rajasthan: BSF Sherlock Holmes checking infiltration
Author : Rahul Bedi (Inter Press Service)
Publication : The Asian Age
Date : April 30, 1997
Every day at sunrise, constable Shaitan Singh, a Khoji or tracker with the Border
Security Force, diligently examines a stretch of sand running alongside the
wire-fencing border with Pakistan, for any tell-tale signs of infiltration. The
slightest disturbance in the sand raises the alarm for the 37-year-old tracker.
It tells him whether any human or animal has crossed the three-tiered barbed wire
fence at the remote Gadra Road border post, over 800 km west of New Delhi
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