For Jiten Adhikary (65) and 350 fellow inhabitants of village Chit Kuchlibari, close to the Indo-Bangla border, nights are spent in sleepless terror. Physically part of Jalpaiguri district in north Bengal, this little enclave-a narrow sliver of land measuring around 250 bighas-is actually Bangladesh territory. In 1947, there was naturally no power supply. But even 53 years later and well into the new millennium, the area slips back into the middle ages after the sun sets. Then it's time for local and Bangladeshi criminals to begin ruling the lives of the hapless inhabitants.