AGARTALA, July 24: A total of six Bangladesh nationals, who crossed over to India without valid documents, were arrested from two places in Tripura, police said on Wednesday.
Acting on a tip-off, a railway police team laid a trap at Agartala railway station on Tuesday evening.
“Around 7 pm, the team arrested four suspected Bangladesh nationals from the railway station. After preliminary interrogation, the four people revealed they were from Bangladesh and were planning to go to Kolkata in search of jobs. Since they could not show any valid documents to travel to India, all of them were arrested”, the Officer-in-Charge (OC), GRP station Agartala, Tapas Dad, told reporters.
They were forwarded to a local court for necessary legal procedures, he said, adding that an inquiry is underway.
In another incident, two more Bangladesh nationals were arrested from Srinagar in South Tripura district by BSF personnel on Tuesday.
“The two Bangladeshi citizens were arrested after they crossed over the Bangla border at Srinagar in South Tripura district on Tuesday night. The arrest came after the BSF intensified its vigil along the border,” said a BSF official on Wednesday. (PTI)
