Six Bangladeshis arrested in Tripura border

Special Correspondent

SILCHAR: Assam check-gate in Tripura border known as Churaibari post has emerged as the transgression point of Bangladeshis as well as illegal migrants from other countries. Memories of migrants from South African countries in the recent past are still fresh. Bangladeshis trickle in often, but most of them fall in the police net as it happened last Friday, according to information from police sources.

In the latest detention, six Bangladeshis including four women were found travelling by a night super bus from Agartala to Guwahati. In fact, these six got down at Dhamanagar, the last border town of Tripura, just a few kms up Churaibari. It was around 9 pm of last Friday when all of them boarded two auto rickshaws, bearing number plates TRO5/2616 and TRO5/2318 and were proceeding to the railway township of Badarpur, 70 km away.

At Dharmanagar, the illegal migrants were helped by a resident of Ratabari under Karimganj district. He was also taken into custody by police. The women have been identified as Aleya Begum, her two daughters, Fatima Akhtar and Sofia Akhtar, and Nazma Begum. The two youths detained are Soyal Alamgir and Abdul Gafoor. After producing them before the court at Karimganj, the police took them on a 10-day remand and sent all of them for medical examination.

On interrogation, the Bangladeshis confessed how they entered Agartala by crossing the barbed wire fencing to this side of India. From there, their destination was Badarpur to board a train for Bangalore where they work in different restaurants. Earlier also, they made their entry through the vulnerable point of fencing near Agartala and went to Bangalore, stayed there for a long time, earned good money and were back home.

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