18 Bangladeshi immigrants escape from Narsingarh detention camp

Taking the advantages of festivities, altogether 18 Bangladeshi immigrants escape from Narsingarh detention camp under West Tripura district.

An official in Tripura Police said that the incident occurred when plans were made for deportation of the infiltrators

Sources said that police registered a case and started searching after a total of 18 Bangladeshi immigrants who entered the state illegally, escaped from a detention camp at Narsingarh in West Tripura district.

The detainees, aged between 18 to 40 years old, were arrested earlier for infiltrating the state without any valid documents.

Police sources said that the incident occurred when plans were made for deportation of the infiltrators and a specific case  was registered on October 1st under Section 262 of BNS, a day after they fled from the detention centre.

The case was filed based on the complaint filed by the State Detention Centre under the Social Welfare and Social Education Department.

It may be recalled here that on October 1st (Day of Maha Nabami) six  inmates — five undertrial prisoners and one convicted person — escaped from a Dharmanagar sub- jail in North Tripura Tripura in the wee hours after injuring a security guard with sharp weapons. Two of them were later arrested again.

The incident took place when the jail personnel brought the inmates out of their cell for breakfast and for their daily ablutions.

The fleeing undertrial prisoners are Abdul Pata, Rahim Ali, Narayan Chandra Dutta, Rosan Ali, and Nazim Uddin while Sunil Debbarma, accused of serious crimes including murder, has been serving life imprisonment.

Narayan Chandra Dutta is a Bangladeshi national who was earlier arrested in Tripura under Passport and other Acts while Abdul Pata is a resident of Nilambazar in Assam’s Sribhumi district (previously Karimganj district).

Abdul Pata was earlier arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, for his involvement in illegal drugs related cases.

On Thursday, the Tripura government suspended five officials in connection with the escape of six inmates.

The official said that Abdul Patta, one of the six inmates who escaped from the Dharmanagar Sub-Jail at Kalikapur in North Tripura district, was apprehended on Wednesday evening from South Chandrapur under the Dharmanagar police station and on Thursday afternoon, another escaped jail inmate namely Narayan Chandra Datta Feni district of Bangladesh was re-arrested from Malakar Basti, Shyam Moni Para under Dharmanagar police station of North Tripura district.

Tripura shares a 856 km long international border with Bangladesh, parts of which are still unfenced due to local disputes.