Tripura: Two Rohingyas Arrested near Indo-Bangla Border

Agartala, July 16, 2019:

Two Rohingya men were nabbed in Tripura earlier today the India-Bangladesh border. police arrested 21-year-old Mohammed Salim and 20-year-old Jahangir Alam from Rajnagar area near Agartala in West Tripura district on Monday.

Officer-in-charge of Battala police station Sahadeb Bhowmik told mediapersons that they had crossed the border looking for employment opportunities.

Refugee cards were recovered from their possession and they confessed to having stayed at a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh's Chittagong area, officials said. The duo are to be produced at a local court on Tuesday.

It may be mentioned that the Rohingyas use the Tripura corridor of the India-Bangladesh border to enter India from the neighbouring country, BSF officials said.

In October 2017, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had ordered all state governments to identify and monitor Rohingya refugees.

It said the Centre viewed infiltration of Rohingyas from the Rakhine state of Myanmar into Indian territory as a burden on the country's resources and it aggravated security challenges to the country.

Thousands of Rohingya Muslims, described by the UN as the most persecuted minority in the world, fled their homes in 2017 to escape an alleged crackdown by the Myanmarese military.

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