11 Bangladeshis arrested in Tripura for illegally entering India

Agartala, Sep 22 (PTI): A total of 11 Bangladeshis have been arrested in Tripura for allegedly entering India without valid documents, GRP said on Sunday.

Three of their Indian facilitators have also been nabbed, a GRP officer said.

Acting on a tip-off, a GRP team nabbed the Bangladeshis at Agartala railway station on Saturday evening when they were planning to go to Chennai and Ahmedabad by train.

They were detained and taken to Agartala Government Railway Police (GRP) station and during interrogation, they confessed to having crossed the international border illegally and that they were planning to go to Chennai and Ahmedabad, officer-in-charge Tapan Das said.

He said the 11 Bangladeshis and three Indians were produced before a local court on Sunday seeking police remand.

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