Two Rohingyas, 2 more human traffickers arrested

After the arrest of 17 Bangladeshi and four human traffickers, the security forces on Sunday again arrested two Rohingyas and two more human traffickers from different parts of the Sepahijala district.

Police sources said that based on secret information, police personnel from Madhupur police station on Sunday morning arrested two Rohingyas moving in the border areas in suspected conditions.

Police said that two Rohingyas identified as Faruq and Sahid, who were returned from Delhi, wanted to exfiltrate into Bangladesh through border areas of Madhupur, but before their exfiltration moved , police arrested them.

While, Government Railway Police (GRP) station of Agartala Railway station has arrested two wanted human traffickers from bordering Kaiyadefa village under Sepahijala district in the wee hours of sounday.

Giving details, OC of GRP station of Agartala Railway station, Tapash Das said that based on secret information, police and BSF raided that bordering village in the wee hours of Sunday and managed to arrest two wanted human traffickers, who were on the run during the past few months.

Arrested human traffickers were identified as Indrajit Das (31) and Subash Rudra Paul (31),involved with infiltration of many Bangladeshi and Rohingyas into Indian territory. Both arrested traffickers were also produced before a local court in Agartala on Sunday with police remand appeals for interrogation.

It may be recalled here that amidst heightened vigil along the India-Bangladesh border, infiltration from the unrest hit Bangladesh into Tripura continued and altogether 17 Bangladeshi including women and four wanted Indian traffickers were arrested by security forces during the last one week.

After unrest in Bangladesh, the infiltration into the Northeastern states especially in Tripura and Assam has continued and in the last few months hundreds of Bangladesh nationals along with Rohingyas were arrested by security forces from different borders of the state.

The Bangladeshi citizens after illegally entering Tripura were trying to board a train to go to Kolkata via Guwahati.

While, the Border Security Force (BSF) said that they have enhanced vigilance and intensified its domination along the international border.

Since 26th January 2025 BSF troops have successfully thwarted several attempts of infiltration, exfiltration, and trans-border smuggling.

BSF of Tripura frontier through a press statement said that during various operations conducted independently and jointly, 14 Bangladeshi nationals and 2 Indian touts have been apprehended by the BSF. Additionally, a significant quantity of narcotics, sugar, cattle, and other contraband items worth ₹2.5 crore has been seized.

The bordering Tripura, which is a top hotspot travelling destination for human trafficking, specially for Rohingyas and Bangladesh nationals, who were illegally entered into Indian territory and moves towards other parts of the country through different means of surface communication with help of Indian and Bangladeshi touts, but many time, the alert security forces have also managed to detain them.

Officials said that all the Bangladeshis and Rohingyas illegally entered Tripura to board trains or buses to go to other states in India “in search of jobs”.