As many as 23 Bangladeshi nationals and a tout were arrested from the Agartala railway station on Saturday night for illegally entering India, officials said.
The Government Railway Police said the Bangladeshis had arrived in India in search of jobs and were arrested while trying to board a train to move to other states via Guwahati in Assam. They are aged between 19 and 40 years and are residents of Chapainawabganj district in Bangladesh’s Rajshahi division, reports Indian Express.
A few days ago, two Indian touts were arrested from the railway station for their alleged involvement in helping Bangladeshi nationals infiltrate. They were charged under the Foreigners Act and the Passport Act.
A huge number of Bangladeshi and Rohingya people were similarly arrested at the Agartala railway station and other parts of Tripura in the last few weeks. The railway station is suspected by authorities to be used as a corridor for trafficking.
Parts of Tripura’s 856-km-long border with Bangladesh are still unfenced because of local disputes.
