Karimganj police apprehends 10 Bangladeshi nationals at Churaibari interstate border

Assam Police has detained 10 Bangladeshi Nationals on Friday from Churaibari check gate on NH 08, at the interstate border of Assam and Tripura. These people were coming from Agartala and Dharmanagar by Night super buses and police apprehended them during routine naka checking at the border gate. Police have also got hold of a broker who were helping them sneaking through the route in India. Four women are there among the detainees.   

Karimganj Police have detained four Bangladeshi citizens from a night super bus traveling to Guwahati from Agartala; they were probably going to Chennai, police information said. All four detainees are from the Rajsahi district of Bangladesh; they are identified as Rajesh Sheikh (29), Son of Ibrahim Sheikh, Asadul Sheikh Saidul (29), Shana Ullah Aankhi (28), and Kowseer Hussain (20). They were detained from a night superbus, bearing the registration number AS 01 LC 8919. On Friday night, during a routine checkup at Churaibari Check gate, they inform Mintu Shil, inspector of Churaibari Police Outpost.

The detainees confessed that they were going to Chennai for work purposes, and they entered India through Agartala, Tripura. They did not own any legal Indian documents during the time of the detention. But some amount of Indian Currency and four mobile phones have been recovered from them. They are now kept behind the bar at Bazarichara Police station, police carrying on the interrogation. They will be produced before the Karimganj District Court on Saturday, the inspector informed.

In a separate incident, Churaibari outpost police were able to detain six more Bangladeshi nationals along with a local broker. They were detained from two buses coming from dharmanagar, bearing the registration number TR 05 2616 & TR 05 2318.

Detained Bangladeshi nationals have been identified as Fatima Akhter (21) of Khulna, Bangladesh; Aleaa Begum (45), Safera Akhter (23), Nazma Begum (25), Sohail (25), Abdul Gaffar (29) of Bagarhal, and one broker Bidhan Chandra Das, who is a resident of Kudaligram, Ratabari, Karimganj.

Illegal infiltration or trespassing in India’s North East states is a persistent issue made possible by the porous border and broker ecosystem. Very recently Cachar Police detained few Myanmarese Nationals from Cachar, they entered through the Mizoram, it is believed that they were fleeing the oppression current JUNTA regime in Myanmar.