Four of 31 suspected B’deshis remanded to police custody

Guwahati: A court in Assam on Tuesday remanded four of the 31 suspected Bangladeshis held from Guwahati railway station in police custody and the remaining adults in judicial custody.
The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kamrup, ordered that the children be sent to the children remand home here. The 31 people, including eight women and 13 children, were held at Guwahati railway station on Monday when they were preparing to board Kanchanjunga Express to go to Agartala.
They would be produced before the court again on October 20. They were detained after they failed to produce any valid document to prove their Indian citizenship. The Bangladeshi nationals told reporters in the court premises that there were agents in Bangladesh who charged Rs 8,000 per person for taking them to India and preparing their Aadhaar card, voter and PAN cards. They said they are taken by the agents to Tripura across the Indo-Bangladesh border, then by train to Assam before travelling on to West Bengal, Bangalore and Delhi to work as labourers and domestic helps.
They were on their way to Bangladesh to visit homes when they were apprehended. (PTI)