13 Rohingya Refugees Arrested In Assam Trying To Enter India Illegally

NDTV 

Guwahati:
All India
Ratnadip Choudhury
December 24, 2020

Six of the 13 Rohingya refugees arrested by Assam Police on Tuesday were children

Thirteen Rohingya refugees, including six children, have been arrested from Assam's Karimganj district - which borders Bangladesh - police sources told NDTV on Thursday, adding that all 13 were arrested for trying to illegally cross the international border.

The refugees, who were taken into custody on Tuesday, were picked up off a bus travelling from Agartala in Tripura to Guwahati in Assam. Sources said they were arrested from the Churaibari inter-state border. The arrested group includes four men and three women.

Police sources said after initial interrogation it appeared they were from two different families and had been living in refugee camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar. At least two members of the group had travelled to India previously, the sources added.

A fake Aadhaar card and Indian currency were recovered from their possession.

Some members of the group told police they were trying to reach either Delhi, Hyderabad or Jammu in search of work; all three regions have settlements of Rohingya refugees.

Last month police said they had arrested eight Rohingya refugees for trying to illegally enter India via Myanmar. In a separate incident, 14 Myanmarese refugees were detained in Bengal's New Jalpaiguri; they had fled from Cox's Bazaar and entered India on November 26.

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