Eight Bangladeshi nationals, including four women and a minor, were arrested from Agartala railway station on Thursday night before they boarded a Guwahati-bound train, Government Railway Police (GRP) officials said.
Border Security Force personnel arrested three more Bangladeshi nationals and an Indian broker from Sabroom in southern Tripura on Thursday night, a Border Security Force (BSF) spokesperson said.
GRP sources said that during the last two months, 102 foreign nationals, including seven Rohingyas, have been arrested from Agartala Railway Station.
On July 4, 25 Rohingyas, including six women and seven children, were arrested from North Tripura district as they were about to board buses to go first to Guwahati and then to Hyderabad.
Officials said all the Bangladeshis and Rohingyas entered Tripura illegally to board trains or buses to other states in India "in search of jobs".
Before entering Tripura illegally, the Rohingya fled their camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, where more than one million displaced Rohingya from Myanmar have been living since 2017.
Due to increasing cross-border infiltration, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, during a high-level meeting last week, asked top officials of BSF and police to take appropriate steps to stop infiltration, smuggling, illegal trade and border crimes.
BSF's Tripura Frontier Inspector General, Patel Piyush Purushottam Das, said physical dominance along the 856-km-long India-Bangladesh border with Tripura has been enhanced with state-of-the-art surveillance technology, including artificial intelligence-enabled cameras and facial recognition devices. Prevent infiltration, crime and other illegal activities.
Border Security Force personnel arrested three more Bangladeshi nationals and an Indian broker from Sabroom in southern Tripura on Thursday night, a Border Security Force (BSF) spokesperson said.
GRP sources said that during the last two months, 102 foreign nationals, including seven Rohingyas, have been arrested from Agartala Railway Station.
On July 4, 25 Rohingyas, including six women and seven children, were arrested from North Tripura district as they were about to board buses to go first to Guwahati and then to Hyderabad.
Officials said all the Bangladeshis and Rohingyas entered Tripura illegally to board trains or buses to other states in India "in search of jobs".
Before entering Tripura illegally, the Rohingya fled their camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, where more than one million displaced Rohingya from Myanmar have been living since 2017.
Due to increasing cross-border infiltration, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, during a high-level meeting last week, asked top officials of BSF and police to take appropriate steps to stop infiltration, smuggling, illegal trade and border crimes.
BSF's Tripura Frontier Inspector General, Patel Piyush Purushottam Das, said physical dominance along the 856-km-long India-Bangladesh border with Tripura has been enhanced with state-of-the-art surveillance technology, including artificial intelligence-enabled cameras and facial recognition devices. Prevent infiltration, crime and other illegal activities.
