Rohingya man arrested in Tripura's Unakoti district: police
A Rohingya man was arrested at Kailashahar in Tripura's Unakoti district along with a man in whose house he was found, police said on Thursday.
The Rohingya man has been identified as Noor Mustafa and the other arrested man as Abdul Wahid.
'We got secret information last night that a Myanmar national is hiding at Dhaliarkandi. A team of police conducted a raid at Wahid's house and arrested Noor Mustafa and the house owner. Some touts helped him. We are trying to trace them. We forwarded them to court today,' said a senior police officer.
The police have found out that Mustafa and his family left Myanmar for Bangladesh in 2012. In 2019, he came to India and worked in Hyderabad. He was planning to go back to Bangladesh with the help of a tout.
Arrests of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh have been common in Tripura, more so since the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government's fall in Dhaka last year following an uprising. Vigil has since been tightened along the 856-km-long border with Bangladesh, parts of which are still unfenced owing to local disputes.
As per the police, 816 Bangladeshis, 79 Rohingya persons, and two Nigerians were arrested from January 1, 2024, to February 28 this year. As many as 483 of these arrests were made after August 5, 2024, when the Hasina government fell.
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