3 Bangladeshi women arrested from Agartala railway station while trying to board train for Ahmedabad

Within two days after four Bangladesh nationals and an Indian tout were arrested from Agartala railway station by the Government Railway Police (GRP), again on Sunday evening arrested three women from the neighbouring country before their boarding in a long distance train for Ahmedabad for allegedly entering Indian territory illegally.

Giving details officer-in-charge (OC) of GRP, Agartala station, Tapash Das said that based on specific information that a few Bangladeshi nationals would be trying to leave the state by train, the security personnel of GRP and Railway Protection Force (RPF) started search operation across the Agartala station and after noticed the suspected movements of three women, who were trying to board in a long distance train, the police team detained them.

After preliminary interrogation, police have arrested three Bangladeshi women who illegally crossed into Indian territory and the trio were identified as Rozina Akhter( 36), Parul Begum( 34) and Sultana Begum ( 26), who were trying to cross the state’s territory towards Ahmedabad city.

 He said arrested women failed to produce valid documents and eventually admitted that they were Bangladeshi citizens and claimed that after their husbands abandoned them, they entered Indian territory looking for jobs.

As per preliminary investigation, the three women were planning to go to Ahmedabad in Gujarat by boarding an express train that would take them outside Tripura. The Bangladeshi women were produced before a local court on Monday with a plea for their police custody under Foreigner Act.

In recent months, Tripura has witnessed a series of arrests of foreign nationals who were found to have illegally crossed the border.

As many as 1,018 people—498 Bangladeshi citizens, 396 Indians and 124 Rohingya—were arrested between January 2023 and April 2024.