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Bengaluru-Bound Bangladeshi Infiltrators Arrested In Tripura; Case Registered Against Them For Illegal Border Crossing
An Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldier (TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images) (Illustration: Swarajya Magazine)
Four Bangladeshi nationals were arrested by the Tripura police in Dharmanagar under North Tripura district, on Saturday (7 September) for illegally entering into India.
According to the police, a patrol team first detained the four after they were seen behaving suspiciously near the station road in Dharmanagar.
“During the interrogation, they admitted that they were from Bangladesh. They were identified as Md Hanif, Yusuf Ali, Parul Begum, and Jasmine Akhter. A case has been registered against them for illegally crossing the border,” an official was quoted as saying by Indian Express.
One of the detained Bangladeshi nationals told mediapersons that the situation in Bangladesh has worsened after the recent regime change, leading to severe unemployment issues in the country.
The Bangladeshi national claimed that an agent had brought them into Tripura at night two days ago.
He further claimed that the human traffickers dropped them in front of the railway station, where they were later picked up by the police.
In a separate incident on Tuesday, the body of a 16-year-old Bangladeshi girl was discovered near a border outpost with a bullet wound in Kailashahar in Tripura's Unakoti district.
The victim, identified as Swarna Das from Moulvibazar district, was reportedly part of a larger group attempting to flee Bangladesh.
