Tripura: 8 Rohingyas including women and minors arrested

Agartala: Tripura police on Monday arrested eight suspected Rohingya migrants, including three women and three minors, from the Agartala railway station.

He was detained by a police team from Agartala railway station while he was waiting for a train to New Delhi, officials said.

Police said they entered Tripura without valid documents after escaping from a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

He arrived across the Indo-Bangladesh border with the help of an agent who promised him a job in the national capital.
They did not have valid passports but had refugee cards from the United Nations High Commissioner describing them as forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals and persons of concern to UNHCR.

He was booked under the Passport Act and produced before the court, which sent him to 14-day judicial custody.
On Friday, seven Rohingya migrants, including three women, were arrested by the Tripura police from Bet Baghan area under Ambasa police station on the Assam-Agartala National Highway for allegedly entering the country illegally.