A joint group of Authorities Railway Police (GRP) and Railway Safety Power (RPF) arrested seven Bangladeshi nationals together with two touts in two separate circumstances on the Agartala railway station on Friday.
4 Bangladeshi nationals and two Bangladeshi touts had been arrested for getting into the state illegally on Friday morning. Later within the night, one other Bangladeshi nationwide was nabbed on the similar location.
“Circumstances had been lodged in each the incidents right here. Those that had been arrested within the morning, we produced them within the court docket. Amongst them, we obtained one in our remand,” stated Tapas Das, Officer-in-Cost, Agartala Authorities Railway police station.
He added that the Bangladeshi residents entered India with none authorized paperwork they usually had been charged beneath the Foreigners Act, the Passports Act, and several other sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
“Those that are serving to the Bangladeshi nationals to cross the border illegally in trade for cash, we will determine them and arrest them,” the officer stated.
Almost 100 international nationals together with 87 Bangladeshis have been arrested on the Agartala railway station within the final 5 months, knowledgeable a senior GRP officer.
Tripura shares an 856 km-long border with Bangladesh. Most components of the border have been lined by barbed wire fencing, however a couple of patches are but to be fenced.
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