Seven more Bangladeshi arrested at Agartala rail station before boarding in a long distance train

Despite issuance of strict directives for effective steps to stop all illegal activities on the Indo-Bangladesh border by Chief Minister and adoption of more concrete measures with deployment of additional BSF, the rampant infiltration by Bangladeshi and Rohingyas going on in different parts of Tripura.

Again on Thursday evening, seven more Bangladeshi including four women were arrested by Government Railway Police (GRP) from Agartala railway station before boarding a long distance train.

Tapash Das, OC of GRP station, Agartala said that during regular checking of passenger trains, the GRP personnel noticed the suspected movements of a group  of people and detained them . During interrogation, they revealed their tour plan, who entered info Indian territory without any valid documents.

Das said that arrested Bangladesh nationals were identified as Ibrahim Hossain (24) of Kalaroa, Bangladesh, Safikul Islam (32) of Satkhira district, Musamed Salina Begum (22) with her son namely- Samim Reze (5), Md. Shimul Hossain (28), Nur Nahar Juma (23) of Pabna district, Taslima Kanum (24) of Narail district and Meenu Khatun (19)  of Kholna district of  Bangladesh.

Earlier, on Tuesday five more Rohingyas, including two women were arrested from the Agartala railway station.

Acting on a tip-off, the Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel arrested the Rohingyas on Tuesday night for their illegal entry into India from Bangladesh before their boarding to a Guwahati-bound train. The Rohingyas said that they intended to go to Hyderabad or in Jammu and Kashmir in search of jobs, said Tapash Das, OC of GRP station.

The state police on July 4 arrested 25 Rohingyas, including six women and seven children, from two different places in North Tripura district when they were about to board buses to first go to Guwahati and then to Hyderabad by train in search of jobs.

Before illegally entering Tripura, the Rohingyas fled from their camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazaar, where more than one million displaced Rohingyas from Myanmar have been living since 2017.

Over 107 Bangladeshi nationals, including women and children, have been arrested from the Agartala railway station for their illegal entry while 30 Rohingyas, including eight women and seven children, were arrested from different places in Tripura in the last two months.

It may be recalled here that due to rising infiltration from across the border, Tripura Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha during a high-level meeting last week asked the top Border Security Force (BSF) and police officials to take appropriate measures to prevent infiltration, smuggling, illegal trade and border crimes.

BSF’s Tripura frontier Inspector General, Patel Piyush Purushottam Das, said that physical domination has been augmented with state-of-the-art surveillance technology, including Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled cameras and facial recognition tools along the 856 km India-Bangladesh border with Tripura to prevent infiltration, crimes and other illegal activities.