GUWAHATI: Twenty-one illegal migrants from Bangladesh were deported back to their country through Sutarkandi border point in Karimganj district of Assam on Saturday afternoon.
Following the approval from the Ministry of Home Affairs, Cachar and Karimganj district administrations and police officials along with the BSF, facilitated deportation of these 21 Bangladeshi nationals.
These Bangladeshi nationals including 19 males and two females were kept detained at a detention camp inside Silchar Central Jail in Assam after they had been nabbed at different time in these two districts.
A senior police official in Karimganj informed that out of these 21 nationals from neighbouring Bangladesh, 15 were arrested in Karimganj and remaining six were taken into custody from Cachar, on charges of illegally entering India.
One of these illegal migrants, Liton Kanti Das, a resident of Kishoreganj district in Bangladesh, was the only Hindu while the rest 20 were from the Muslim community.
Ironically, among these 21 Bangladeshi nationals, Mir Pavel Mian, Safiqul Islam, Sabel Ahmed, Kairul Islam, Jahida Begam, Sufia Begam, Abdul Rahid, Nasir Hussain, Ramzan Ali have not entered India through Assam but through Dwaki in Meghalaya and by border routes of Tripura.
All of them have served jail terms of two to four years for illegally entering India and after completing the immigration process of the detained Bangladeshi nationals they were sent across the international border on Saturday afternoon.
Additional SP (Border) Cachar, Gaurav Kumar Agarwal, along with BSF officials from Karimganj and Sutarkandi border outposts formally handed over these illegal migrants to Border Guards Bangladesh.
