Guwahati: Three Bangladeshi intruders were detected by security forces in the Karimganj border of Assam and pushed back to Bangladesh in midnight of August 27. Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma revealed this in a post in microblogging site X. He wrote, “In line with our ongoing policy to safeguard our borders against any infiltration, Karimganj police detected the following Bangladeshi nationals and subsequently pushed them back at 00:50 hours today:
1. Md. Zubair Sheikh 2. Juel Sheikh 3. Ruma Khatun.” CM Sarma said the after the political turmoil started in Bangladesh, over 50 Muslim intruders from the neighbouring country were pushed back by security forces on the Assam border. All the detained intruders revealed that they entered India to join the textile industry in Tamilnadu. Most of the textile factories in Bangladesh shut down. So the jobless Bangladesh nationals tried to enter India to work in the textile industry in places like Coimbatore. The Assam CM will write to Tamil Nadu CM requesting him to check the identity of the factory labourers who have joined in recent times.
Earlier on August 22, two intruders from Bangladesh were arrested in Assam. Assam Police arrested the two Bangladeshi nationals at the Badarpur railway station. The 36-year-old Masum Khan, a resident of Bangladesh’s Modelganj Police Station and the son of Rustam Khan, and the 15-year-old Sonia Akhtar, a resident of Dhaka, Bangladesh, were the two people who were captured. They were apparently travelling to Bangalore when they entered India via the Madhoppur (BD)-Agartala route. Assam Police successfully drove the BSF back across the border yesterday night in cooperation with them.
Four intruders from Bangladesh were taken into custody by the Assam Police on August 20 in two different incidents. Later on, these people were pushed back. Three citizens of Bangladesh who had infiltrated India across the Tripura border were detained by Assam Police last night. Asadul Islam, the late Atabur Rahman’s son from Godagari village in Rajshahi district; Md. Sarwar, the late Md. Satabur Rahaman’s son from Godagari village in Rajshahi district; and Md. Abu Shaid, son of Abdul Adud from Akhila village in Rajshahi district were identified as the persons. One of them had visited India twice and was discovered to have an Aadhaar card. For a labour job, all three of them planned to fly to Chennai. Since then, they have been forced to return to Bangladesh.
A little while ago, Lipi Akhtar, another immigrant from Bangladesh who was from the Dhaka Division, was returned to the Bangladeshi authorities. She was earlier taken into custody by Assam police in Dhubri. According to the results of the research, Akhtar travelled by bus and boat for more than a day before setting foot in Sukchar, South Salmara District, in the early hours of August 18, 2024. She was stopped when travelling by boat to Dhubri after seeking refuge at a home in Sukchar. There is a manhunt in progress to find more collaborators or infiltrators.”
The Border Security Force (BSF) has seized US and Bangladeshi money from seven additional Bangladeshi nationals that were recently apprehended in Tripura, including a woman and her toddler. In the three months since the unrest and violence in the neighbouring country started, the Government Railway Police, the BSF, and the Tripura Police have detained 257 citizens of Bangladesh and 32 Rohingyas who entered India illegally through the Agartala railway station and other locations in Tripura.
According to a BSF spokesman, over the previous several weeks, the force has detained some Indian touts and human traffickers and thwarted multiple attempts at infiltration in various northeastern state borders. A committee was established by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to keep an eye on the current state of affairs along the 1,880 km border between Bangladesh and India, which is shared by Tripura (856 km), Meghalaya (443 km), Mizoram (318 km), and Assam (263 km).
