On July 16 this year, two BSF personnel posted at Silsury Border Outpost (BOP) under the Mami district of Mizoram allegedly gang-raped a Chakma tribal woman along the India-Bangladesh border in Mamit district. The rape survivor identified as Dangubi Milebo Chakma (name changed) said she was waylaid and gang-raped by two men, she alleged were BSF jawans from the Silsury BOP, when she along with another Chakma tribal woman, Rangabi Chakma, w/o Karna Chakma, went to the forests to collect bamboo shoots. The brutality did not stop at rape. She told police that when she resisted the rape attempt, the alleged BSF jawans rubbed a cloth soaked in acid on her face. She suffered serious injuries on her face including her eyes and has been undergoing treatment at Aizawl. In a video interview, the rape survivor confirmed that it was the BSF personnel who had committed the alleged crime.