239 Bangladeshis and 18 Rohingya people arrested in Tripura this year: Govt Railway Police

When asked astir the infiltration by overseas nationals, the serviceman explained that they participate done susceptible points on the India-Bangladesh borderline illegally, though the constabulary and the GRP stay vigilant successful monitoring the situation. In September, implicit 70 Bangladeshi nationals were arrested by Border Security Forces troops portion attempting to transverse into Indian territory.

A 16-year-old Bangladeshi miss was recovered dormant with a slug coiled adjacent the Laitapura borderline outpost astatine Kailashahar successful Unakoti territory connected September 3. Her assemblage was aboriginal handed implicit to the Border Guards Bangladesh and Bangladesh constabulary aft a postmortem.

Infiltrations are reported contempt heightened vigilance on the planetary border, pursuing assurances from the Central Government that the nation’s borders are unafraid and that amerciable migration volition not beryllium tolerated, peculiarly successful airy of the caller upheaval successful Bangladesh.

Patel Piyush Purushottam Das, Inspector-General, BSF, Tripura Frontier, precocious visited the riverine borderline areas with gaps successful fencing to measure information measures implemented by tract commanders. He emphasised the usage of non-lethal weapons to forestall trans-border smuggling.

Tripura played a important relation successful the nine-month-long Bangladesh Liberation War against Pakistan, which concluded aft the Mukti Bahini, led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, declared independency connected March 26, 1971. At that clip Tripura, with a colonisation of 1.5 million, sheltered 1.6 cardinal East Pakistani refugees, exceeding its ain population.

The Pakistani subject surrendered to the allied forces of Bangladesh and India connected December 16, 1971.