Five wanted human traffickers arrested from bordering villages

In a successful operation, the Government Railway Police (GRP) of Agartala Railway station along with other security forces managed to arrest five most wanted human traffickers, involved in many infiltration cases of Bangladeshi and Rohingyas from border Lankamura, Sharma Lunga and Shanmura area under West Agartala police station on Tuesday early morning.

Giving details, officer-in-charge (OC) of GRP station of Agartala Railway station, Tapash Das said that based on secret information, a joint contingent of GRP, BSF and police personnel from Ramnagar police outpost raided in three villages including Lankamura, Sharma Lunga and Shanmura near Indo-Bangla border in the wee hours of Tuesday.

Based on the information, the five most wanted human traffickers identified as Suma Das alais Bikash (39) of Shanmura, Rahul Das (27) of Shanmura, Biswajit Das of Sharma Lunga, Anibesh Sarkar (31) of Sharma Lunga and Jewel Sarkar (26) of Lankamura were arrested.

He said that arrested human traffickers (Touts) were involved in many infiltration cases and they are responsible for infiltration of many Bangladeshi and Rohingyas into Indian territory.

All arrested touts were produced before a local court on Tuesday with police remand appeals for interrogation and GRP are hoping that during interrogation many inputs over the infiltration racket would be unearthed.