HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, March 19: The railway protection force (RPF) of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has apprehended three Rohingyas from the Agartala Railway Station.
A joint team of RPF and government railway police (GRP), conducted a routine checking on March 17 and detected suspicious activity of a group of people at the Agartala Railway Station. On interrogation they could not produce any valid documents. Later, they revealed that they had entered India illegally and were planning to escape from Agartala by the Kanchanjunga Express.
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All of them were apprehended and handed over to the officer in-charge of GRP, Agartala for further legal action.
During the financial year 2023-24, a total of 340 illegal migrants (Rohingyas and Bangladeshis) have been apprehended at different stations over NFR by RPF. RPF staff deployed at stations and trains are always vigilant and alert towards illegal infiltration from across the border areas. RPF keeps up a steady routine checks at railways stations and trains to prevent it.
