BSF and Tripura police in a joint operation arrest 11 Bangladeshi nationals in Sabroom

The Border Security Force (BSF), jointly with state police, on Friday apprehended 11 Bangladeshi nationals, including four women and four children in Tripura.

A police official said that the 11 Bangladeshi nationals, including four women and four children, came to Sabroom in southern Tripura from Gujarat by train, and before they returned back to their country were staying at a house of an Indian national at the border village of Srinagar.

Local people captured them before they crossed over to Bangladesh and handed them over to the BSF and Tripura Police.


BSF and police officials are now interrogating the Bangladeshi nationals. The official said that as part of the legal formalities, they would be produced in a Tripura court on Saturday.

Of the detainees, adult persons are aged 21 to 40 years old, while the children are two to twelve years old. The intruders are residents of Kalia Upazila in Narail District under Khulna Division of Bangladesh.

Since August last year, BSF, Government Railway Police (GRP), Railway Protection Force (RPF), Tripura Police jointly or independently apprehended around 900 Bangladeshi nationals.