Three Rohingyas, 2 Bangladeshi including a woman arrested from two different parts of Tripura

In two separate incidents, three Rohingyas and two Bangladeshi nationals were detained by alert people from Inter-State Bus Terminal (ISBT) Dharmanagar and by West Agartala police station.

Police sources said that a passenger jeep driver, when noticed three suspected persons including a woman boarded in his jeep from ISBT (Dharmanagar) to reach Railway station, he informed the matter to some plain cloth BSF personnel of Intelligence Branch.

Immediately, BSF personnel rushed to the jeep and after preliminary interrogation suspected three persons revealed that they were the residents of Rohingya camps in Cox Bazar of Chittagong and entered into Indian territory without valid documents.

Sources added that detained Rohingyas also revealed that they have plans to travel to Kolkata for job purposes. Later, BSF handed over them to Dharmanagar police for further legal proceedings.

In another incident, based on secret information, the police personnel from West Agartala police station arrested two Bangladeshi nationals.

Giving details of OC of West Agartala police station, Rana Chatterjee said that based on intelligence inputs of Immigration officials, police detained two suspected Bangladeshi, identified as Dawood Sheikh and Munna Miah, moving in the city mysteriously.

He said that during preliminary interrogation, they revealed that they entered into Indian territory without any valid documents.

OC also said that all arrested Bangladeshi will be produced before a local court on Wednesday with police remand appeals for further interrogation under Passport Act.

“The Bangladeshi and Rohingyas confessed that they wanted to go to Chennai and Ahmedabad by train in search of jobs,” police sources told the media, adding that some mobile phones and Indian and Bangladesh currencies were seized from them.

The bordering Tripura, which is a top hotspot travelling destination for human trafficking, specially for Rohingyas and Bangladesh nationals, who were illegally entered into Indian territory and moves towards other parts of the country through different means of surface communication with help of Indian and Bangladeshi touts, but many time, the alert security forces have also managed to detain them.

A Border Security Force (BSF) spokesman said that the paramilitary forces are cracking down heavily on the illegal migration by Bangladeshi nationals and have stepped up domination and vigil along the border in Tripura to prevent infiltration and trans border crimes.