Eight Bangladeshi infiltrators were held at New Bongaigaon Railway Station in Assam on Tuesday for illegally entering the country.
The individuals—identified as Babu Sheikh, Ashfaqul Haque, Alamin Ali, Mamun Sheikh, Mohammad Ali, Ruhul Amin, Musharraf Ali, and Asharul Haque—are all reportedly from Jamalpur district in Bangladesh.
As per reports from Assam, the Bangladeshi infiltrators claimed to have entered India from Meghalaya through collapsed barbed wire fence that collapsed due to rain. They stated that after paying about Rs 8,500 each to cross the border with the help of touts their intention was to go to Chennai for work.
“There were no security guards there when we sneaked into Indian territory,” one of the Bangladeshi nationals told a news channel.
“We have detained eight suspected Bangladeshi nationals for illegally entering India. They confessed that they were from Jamalpur area of Bangladesh and going to Chennai for work. We have registered a case and further proceedings,” said a Government Railway Police (GRP) official at New Bongaigaon Railway Station.
