Agartala, July 28: The Government Railway Police (GRP) on Saturday arrested 23 Bangladeshi nationals, including a tout, at Agartala Railway station for illegally entering India.
According to officials, they were arrested from Agartala railway station on Saturday night as they were trying to board a train to travel to other Indian states via Guwahati.
“The Bangladeshi nationals, aged between 19 years to 40 years, are residents of Bangladesh’s Chapainawabganj district in Rajshahi Division. They came in India in search of jobs,” an official said.
The Rajshahi Division, located in the north-western part of Bangladesh, one of the eight divisions of the country, has no border with Tripura but in the recent past many nationals of the region have entered Tripura.
Tripura shares an 856 km border with Bangladesh’s Chittagong and Sylhet divisions.
Recently, BSF and other parliamentary forces have started a massive crackdown against illegal migration of Bangladeshi nationals and have stepped up the vigil in close coordination with sister agencies in the border area. All of its field formations are actively breaking down the nexus of touts in the bordering areas.
Over the last two-and-a-half months, more than 150 Bangladeshi nationals and 32 Rohingyas have been arrested by the GRP, BSF and Tripura Police from the Agartala railway station and various other places in Tripura after they illegally entered India.
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