Sources from the Indian Home Ministry said that high alert has been sounded in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal and northeastern Indian states of Assam, Tripura and Meghalaya.
"The Border Security Force (India's para-military force) has been asked to keep a strict vigil along the 4,000-kilometer-stretch Indo-Bangladeshi border, particularly the 2,216-kilometer-long porous border between West Bengal and Bangladesh and respond to any situation with utmost urgency," a senior official said, on condition of anonymity.
The Border Security Force is the border patrol agency of India which guards the country's international border with India and Pakistan. With strength of about 157 battalions, or 220,000 men, it is one of the world's largest border patrol forces.
Bangladesh's border security force Bangladesh Rifles Wednesday morning mutinied in Dhaka over more pay and better facilities, triggering a gun battle that resulted in several casualties.