India, July 27 -- The Border Security Force (BSF) has equipped its personnel at the Indo-Bangladesh border with body worn cameras (BWCs) to record arrests and pushback of illegal immigrants, smugglers' activities, and incidents of disagreement or attacks on its patrolling units, so that the Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) cannot dispute them later, people familiar with the development said.

As many as 2,500 BWCs - small battery-powered digital video cameras with night-recording capability that will be fitted to the jawans' uniform shirts or winter jackets - have already been handed over to the BSF bordermen while 2,500 more will be sent in coming weeks, officers said.

"A decision to use body-worn cameras was taken particularly in the wak...