Thirty foreign nationals, including 12 Bangladeshis, arrested by local police for illegal entry have been sent to jail upon a court order.
A police team of Mobile Task Force unit arrested the foreigners including 18 Mynamar citizens for illegally entering the northeastern Tripura state.
After Friday's court order, all the detainees have been jailed for 14 days, pending formalities to send them back to their own countries.
Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Tripura Police Nepal Das has said police have arrested them at the Agartala Railway Station.
The DIG added the group entered Tripura through Sonamura border point, which is located near Comilla in Bangladesh, and they were on their way to Assam for jobs.
Police also recovered illegally carried money from the detainees.
They were produced before a local court on Friday before the order of sending them to jail came. They face charges of illegal entry.
After completion of their jail term they would be sent back, authorities say.
In recent months more than 50 Myanmarese nationals were arrested in Tripura. They have been using Tripura as transit to mainland India in search of jobs.
The Myanmarese told police that they fled Myanmar due to atrocities by security officials.
Police officials say often the Myanmarese military unleashes atrocities on a section of its nationals, especially Rohingya Muslims, to force them to flee.
Over 50,000 Myanmarese have been living in different parts of neighbouring Mizoram, bordering Myanmar and Bangladesh, and working at various shops and factories after obtaining work permits.
Since the mid-1990s, over 225,000 Myanmar nationals have been sheltering at Teknaf in Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh.
Four northeastern states of Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Assam share 1,880-km border with Bangladesh, while Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh share a 1,640-km unfenced border with Myanmar.
The mountainous terrain, dense forests and other hindrances make the unfenced borders porous and vulnerable, enabling illegal migrants and intruders to cross over without any hurdle.
A police team of Mobile Task Force unit arrested the foreigners including 18 Mynamar citizens for illegally entering the northeastern Tripura state.
After Friday's court order, all the detainees have been jailed for 14 days, pending formalities to send them back to their own countries.
Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Tripura Police Nepal Das has said police have arrested them at the Agartala Railway Station.
The DIG added the group entered Tripura through Sonamura border point, which is located near Comilla in Bangladesh, and they were on their way to Assam for jobs.
Police also recovered illegally carried money from the detainees.
They were produced before a local court on Friday before the order of sending them to jail came. They face charges of illegal entry.
After completion of their jail term they would be sent back, authorities say.
In recent months more than 50 Myanmarese nationals were arrested in Tripura. They have been using Tripura as transit to mainland India in search of jobs.
The Myanmarese told police that they fled Myanmar due to atrocities by security officials.
Police officials say often the Myanmarese military unleashes atrocities on a section of its nationals, especially Rohingya Muslims, to force them to flee.
Over 50,000 Myanmarese have been living in different parts of neighbouring Mizoram, bordering Myanmar and Bangladesh, and working at various shops and factories after obtaining work permits.
Since the mid-1990s, over 225,000 Myanmar nationals have been sheltering at Teknaf in Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh.
Four northeastern states of Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Assam share 1,880-km border with Bangladesh, while Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh share a 1,640-km unfenced border with Myanmar.
The mountainous terrain, dense forests and other hindrances make the unfenced borders porous and vulnerable, enabling illegal migrants and intruders to cross over without any hurdle.
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