15 Bangladeshis detained in Cachar, despatched to detention centre

Ten Bangladeshis, together with two kids and 5 girls, had been detained from Hilara space in Katigorah whereas 5 others had been intercepted by locals in Bishambarpur village underneath West Katigorah and handed over to police on Sunday evening.

The detained individuals have been despatched to a short lived detention centre in Silchar, police mentioned.

The Assam Police have launched a statewide crackdown on unlawful immigrants, significantly Bangladeshis, residing with out legitimate paperwork.

As per the official information, practically 100 undocumented Bangladeshis have been detained over the previous 4 weeks from Cachar’s Katigorah space, which shares a border with Bangladesh.

In the final three days alone, 21 people had been apprehended and they are going to be deported throughout the worldwide border as per state authorities directions, the police officer mentioned.

“The detained persons told us they had travelled from Gujarat and were attempting to return to their country by crossing the border. Some local residents, with the help of the Village Defence Party , stopped them, and our team detained them,” the officer mentioned.

The detained individuals claimed that they had been initially from Khulna in Bangladesh and had been residing in Surat, Gujarat, for the previous a number of years. Fearing arrest amid a current crackdown on undocumented migrants in Gujarat, they determined to return to Bangladesh, he mentioned.

Last week, one other group of 9 Bangladeshis, together with girls and youngsters, had been stopped in Hilara whereas travelling in two autorickshaws.

They instructed police that they had entered India illegally 5–6 years in the past and had been additionally trying to return house after residing in Gujarat.

Earlier this month, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma mentioned that 35 Bangladeshis had been caught in Katigorah after the crackdown started and all of them had been later deported.

He mentioned that almost 330 unlawful migrants had been despatched again from Assam within the final one month, with extra anticipated to be pushed again quickly.

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