5 Bangladeshi nationals had been arrested from the Bengaluru-bound Humsafar Specific at Dharmanagar railway station in North Tripura district Saturday.
Chatting with reporters, officers from the state police stated the Bangladeshis have been recognized as Rafiqul Islam, Shafiqul Islam, Shahab Ali Sheikh, Mumtaz Aqtar, and Rozina Begum.
“We had a tip-off that a number of suspected Bangladeshi nationals had been about to get on board the Agartala-Bengaluru Humsafar Specific. We performed a search operation on the prepare together with officers of the Authorities Railway Police and Border Safety Pressure and zeroed in on 5 individuals on the premise of suspicion. They confessed later throughout preliminary interrogation that they’re residents of Bangladesh,” an official of the native police station stated.
In keeping with preliminary info, the 5 admitted that they crossed the worldwide border by way of the Amtali space of Bangladesh. They confessed to having paid Rs 20,000 every to Rafiqul for being taken to Bengaluru.
A case has been registered and an investigation began, the official stated.
Earlier on Could 16, 5 Rohingya individuals had been arrested from the identical railway station after they illegally crossed the India-Bangla worldwide border and tried to board a prepare in an try to succeed in Jammu.
Three Bangladeshi nationals had been arrested for coming into India by way of the India-Bangla border at Latiapara village panchayat in Kailashahar of Unakoti district in March this 12 months.
As per a BSF report, 369 folks had been arrested, together with 59 Rohingyas, 160 Indians, and 150 Bangladeshi nationals, in numerous operations in Tripura in 2022.
The figures had been greater than the earlier 12 months when 208 ‘intruders’ had been arrested whereas attempting to cross the India-Bangla worldwide border in numerous components of Tripura, together with 115 Indian nationals and 93 Bangladeshi residents.
Tripura shares with Bangladesh an 856-km-long worldwide border, components of that are nonetheless unfenced.
