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4 Bangladeshi infiltrators ‘headed’ to Bengaluru arrested in Tripura | India News

The police arrested four Bangladeshi infiltrators in Dharmanagar under North Tripura district on Saturday. The police later said a patrol team first detained the four after they were seen behaving suspiciously near the station road in Dharmanagar. “During the interrogation, they admitted that they were from Bangladesh. They were identified as Md Hanif, Yusuf Ali, Parul Begum, and Jasmine Akhter. A case has been registered against them for illegally crossing the border,” an official said. One of the arrested Bangladeshi nationals told media persons that the situation in Bangladesh has become dire following the regime change last month and there is an acute lack of employment opportunities in the neighbouring country. “An agent brought us here late at night two days ago. We did not know which part of Tripura we crossed into. But we were supposed to leave for Bengaluru on a train Saturday,” the Bangladeshi national said. He further said that the human traffickers dropped them in front of the railway station and went away. They were waiting near the railway station when …