Bangladeshis & Rohingiyas prefer Tripura corridor to enter India

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: Rohingyas and Bangladeshis enter India through the Tripura corridor and go to Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Jammu & Kashmir and Mumbai through Assam. It is what the Assam Police have found in their investigations.

The Assam Police often intercept Bangladeshis and Rohingyas bound for Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Jammu & Kashmir and Mumbai. During investigations in most of the cases, they find that such people enter India illegally through Tripura. The Rohingyas who enter India through Tripura are from Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.

Assam Police sources say that an international chain of brokers facilitates such infiltration of Bangladeshis and Rohingyas into India through the Tripura corridor. The brokers of the chain lure Bangladeshis and Rohingyas from their camps in Bangladesh with the promise of providing them job opportunities in India. The brokers charge hefty amounts from the infiltrators. Once the brokers of the same chain in Bangladesh push infiltrators to Tripura, the brokers of the same chain working in this side of the borders take the responsibility of placing the infiltrators with jobs in Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai and Jammu & Kashmir, the Assam Police sources said.

The brokers, according to sources, charge hefty amounts from the infiltrators depending on the risk factor involved in their transhipment. According to police sources here, the brokers get fake documents like Aadhaar Cards, PAN Cards etc., in the name of the infiltrators to make their onward journey to the rest of India easier. Sometimes, they travel with tickets in the name of Indian citizens.

Assam Police sources further said that infiltrators from Myanmar use the Mizoram corridor to enter India and go to the rest of India via Assam. The modus operandi they follow is no different from the one followed by infiltrators from Bangladesh.

The Assam Police arresting Bangladeshis and Rohingyas entering India is a common phenomenon these days. In October this year, the Karimganj Police arrested 12 infiltrators from Bangladesh in three separate cases. They also arrested two brokers – one from Karimganj and the other from Tripura.

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