As many as 25 people of Rohingyas origins, including six women and seven children, were held from two separate places of Tripura while they were trying to leave for Hyderabad in search of jobs, said a police officer on Friday. They were arrested from a bus stand at Dharmanagar and the Churaibari gate area in North Tripura district on Thursday night.
Sources in the police said that the accused were planning to go to Guwahati on a bus and then to Hyderabad on a train in search of jobs.
In their preliminary interrogation, the police came to know that the infiltrators entered Tripura via Sonamura in Sepahijala district and Kailasahar in Unakoti district from neighbouring Bangladesh.
The police officer further said that the Rohingya infiltrators left their camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazaar and later entered India with the help of touts without any valid documents.
A huge number of Bangladeshi and Rohingya persons were arrested in Agartala Railway Station and different parts of Tripura in the last few weeks while they were trying to board trains or vehicles to move out of the state.
Over 30 Bangladeshi nationals were arrested at Agartala Railway Station in the last four days itself.
Amid an increase in illegal infiltration from Bangladesh, Saha, who also holds the Home portfolio, on Thursday held a meeting with the top officers of the Border Security Force (BSF). He asked them to maintain tight vigil across the border and to take strict action against those involved in the infiltration of Bangladeshi nationals into Indian territory.
Notably, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested several Tripura youths in connection with a case registered at Guwahati last year for involvement in human trafficking of Bangladeshi and Rohingya persons into Indian territory through the state. The latest arrests came on June 16 this year.
A series of arrests of drug peddlers, gun runners and human traffickers also came to light recently at the Agartala Railway Station, which the authorities suspect is being used as a corridor for trafficking.
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