Acting on a tip-off, Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel arrested Rohingyas on Tuesday night on charges of illegal entry into India from Bangladesh.
“We arrested the intruders just before they boarded the Guwahati-bound train. The Rohingyas said they intended to go to Hyderabad in search of jobs, a GRP official said.
Tripura Police arrested 25 Rohingyas, including six women and seven children, from two different places in North Tripura district on July 4 when they were about to board buses to Guwahati and then by train to Hyderabad 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.
Over 100 Bangladeshi nationals, including women and children, have been arrested from Agartala railway station for illegal entry, while 30 Rohingyas, including eight women and seven children, have been arrested from various places in Tripura in the last two months.
Due to increasing cross-border infiltration, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, during a high-level meeting last week, asked the top Border Security Force (BSF) and police officials to take appropriate steps to prevent infiltration, smuggling, illegal trade and border crimes. Said.
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.
“We arrested the intruders just before they boarded the Guwahati-bound train. The Rohingyas said they intended to go to Hyderabad in search of jobs, a GRP official said.
Tripura Police arrested 25 Rohingyas, including six women and seven children, from two different places in North Tripura district on July 4 when they were about to board buses to Guwahati and then by train to Hyderabad 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.
Over 100 Bangladeshi nationals, including women and children, have been arrested from Agartala railway station for illegal entry, while 30 Rohingyas, including eight women and seven children, have been arrested from various places in Tripura in the last two months.
Due to increasing cross-border infiltration, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, during a high-level meeting last week, asked the top Border Security Force (BSF) and police officials to take appropriate steps to prevent infiltration, smuggling, illegal trade and border crimes. Said.
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.
