In total, fourteen people were detained on Thursday in Kailasahar, a town near the Indo-Bangla border in the Unakoti area of Tripura, comprising seven Bangladeshis, four Rohingya (including two infants), and three Indian touts.
Rahman Ali (30), Jannatara (19), Khaleda Begum (19), Majuma Begum (17), Karima Begum (28), Abbas Howlader (35), and Al-Hafiz (18) were all Bangladeshi nationals. According to the police, the four Rohingyas were Mohammad Alam Sa (20), Kumira Bibi (18), Farida Begum (18), and Shafela Begum (18).
Four members of the Rohingya minority from Myanmar and seven Bangladeshis are among the immigrants who have been detained, according to the police.
According to authorities, they were first detained on Thursday from three vehicles before being later taken into custody in accordance with the Foreigners Act.
According to police, they searched people at the Naka checking station near the Assam-Tripura border on the basis of specific information and detained them for not having legal identity.
According to investigations, the Bangladeshi nationals were from Barisal and Chittagong, while the Rohingyas had been living in a camp for refugees in Chittagong, Bangladesh, since 2017. They recently crossed into Sylhet, Bangladesh, before attempting to cross into India.
The people had crossed the Indo-Bangla border with the aid of Indian touts, according to preliminary police investigations, and had intended to travel to New Delhi via Assam. The police notified the Kadamtala police station in the North district after obtaining information, which resulted in the seizure of three vehicles at the interstate checkpoint between Tripura and Assam. All those detained lacked identification documents.
The sub divisional police officer (SDPO) for Dharmanagar, Debasish Saha, stated, “We discovered that the Bangladeshi and Rohingya people had crossed the Indo-Bangla border with the assistance of Indian touts. Later, they intended to go through three trucks to Karimganj in Assam. Along with the three Indian touts, we detained 11 foreign nationals. We are looking into the situation.
One of the detained Bangladeshis, Rehman Ali, stated, “We entered India through Sonamura. We were afterwards escorted here by a stranger. One of the ladies who was detained, Jannatara Begam, revealed, “My husband used to drive a car. Due to our precarious financial situation, my brother-in-law requested that we travel to Delhi, where he currently resides. Therefore, my brother, my spouse, and I desired to travel there for business.
