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Agartala: The Chief Minister of Tripura Manik Saha on Monday said that a total of 2,815 Bangladeshi nationals were arrested in Tripura during the past three years for their illegal entry into India and 1,746 of them deported to their country so far.
Saha said out of 2,815 detained Bangladeshi nationals till October last year, 474 are in various jails in Tripura, eight in detention centres, two are in shelter homes, while 585 got bail from the court.
Officials said that the Bangladeshi nationals have been entering into India with the help of Indian touts and human traffickers.
The Government Railway Police (GRP) arrested 44 human traffickers, all Indians, in the last five months in Tripura for facilitating the illegal entry of Bangladeshi nationals and Rohingyas into India.
The Chief Minister in a separate reply to a question of Congress MLA Sudip Roy Barman said that in 2023, National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested 25 human traffickers.
Over the last six months, around 625 Bangladeshi nationals and over 63 Rohingyas were arrested by the GRP, Border Security Force (BSF), and Tripura Police from the Agartala railway station and various other places in Tripura after they illegally entered India.
The spokesperson said that BSF is maintaining a high level of alertness on the international border to prevent infiltration and trans border crimes.
Saha said that after the Bangladesh unrest began last year, the BSF has intensified its domination and operations along the 856-km India-Bangladesh border in Tripura to prevent infiltration, exfiltration, and trans-border crimes including smuggling of contraband.
