Swarupnagar, Dec. 1 -- On December 24, 2022, the Border Security Force's (BSF) 115 Battalion detained a seven-year-old girl near Indo-Bangladesh border in West Bengal with around 107 grams of heroin. On October 22 this year, the force's 143 Battalion apprehended a 12-year-old boy in possession of gold worth around Rs.1.64 crore while heading towards the Bangladesh border. In both the occasions, the apprehended children were acting at the behest of their mothers, officials said. BSF officials maintain that over the last few years, several such incidents have come to fore where children were being used as couriers to smuggle gold and contraband across the largely unfenced border. Data from BSF's South Bengal Frontier, which guards India's eas...