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Indian Express
2 days ago
- Indian Express
1 Bangladeshi national, 1 Indian tout arrested in Tripura
The Government Railway Police (GRP) Monday informed that one Bangladeshi national and an Indian tout were arrested during two separate raids at the Agartala railway station in Tripura. In the first incident, a Bangladeshi national, identified as Pranajit Ray, 35, was arrested during a joint operation conducted by the Agartala GRP, Railway Protection Force (RPF), Border Security Force (BSF) and other sister agencies on Wednesday. During the preliminary interrogation, the investigators found that Ray, a resident of Sylhet district in Bangladesh, illegally entered Tripura and had planned to go to Kolkata from the Agartala railway station. 'We seized some documents and some Indian currency. We are examining these things,' said an officer. In a separate incident, an Indian human trafficker, a resident of Chanipur in West Tripura district, was also arrested during a joint operation conducted by security agencies. A GRP officer said the trafficker, identified as Debasish Malakar alias Debu, used to provide food and shelter to Bangladeshi nationals who entered Tripura illegally. 'He was absconding for a long time. We arrested him yesterday (Wednesday) and produced before court today (Friday),' he said. Several Bangladeshi nationals and Rohingyas have been arrested for entering Tripura illegally in recent months. As per a report of the Tripura Police, 816 Bangladeshi nationals, 79 Rohingya persons and two Nigerians were arrested in the state between January 1, 2024, and February 28 this year. Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha, who also holds the Home portfolio, recently informed that 2,815 Bangladeshi nationals were arrested for illegally crossing the Indo-Bangla border into Tripura from 2022 to October 31, 2024, out of which 1,746 have been pushed back to their country and 1,069 are housed in jail custody, temporary detention centres, shelter homes or are out on bail. Tripura shares 856 km of international border with Bangladesh, much of which is covered with barbed wire fence except a few patches that are still unfenced due to local disputes.
The Print
22-04-2025
- The Print
Five arrested in Tripura for human trafficking
He said the arrested people have been identified as Suman Das (39), Rahul Das (27), Biswajit Das (49), Animesh Sarkar (31) and Joyel Sarkar (26), all residents of West Tripura district. Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of Agartala GRP, BSF and state police carried out operations in three locations in West Tripura district and arrested five people wanted in several human trafficking cases, officer-in-charge of GRP, Agartala police station, Tapas Das, told reporters. Agartala, Apr 22 (PTI) Security forces on Tuesday nabbed five people in Tripura for their alleged involvement in human trafficking from Bangladesh, police said. Das said the arrested people, who had felicitated the entry of Bangladesh citizens into Indian territory and enabled them to go outside the northeastern state by using Agartala railway station, were on the run for several days. At least 12 Bangladesh nationals have been arrested from Agartala railway station since April 1, he said. PTI PS ACD This report is auto-generated from PTI news service. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content.
