6 Rohingyas Nabbed From Tripura's Dharmanagar Railway Station, Total At 232 This Year

As many as 232 illegal migrants, including Rohingyas and Bangladesh nationals, have been apprehended by the RPF under the jurisdiction of the NF Railway between January 1, 2023 and August 28, 2023.

Six Rohingyas were nabbed at a Tripura railway station/Representational Image

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Guwahati: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NF Railway) on Monday apprehended six Rohingyas from Tripura’s Dharmanagar railway station, an NF Railway statement stated on Tuesday. A joint team of RPF and the Government Railway Police (GRP), during a routine checking, detected suspicious activity of a group of people, five females and one male, at Dharmanagar railway station.

On being interrogated, they could not produce any valid documents and later revealed that they entered India illegally and were residing at refugee camps near Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, the statement added.

Later all the Rohingyas were handed over to the GRP, Dharmanagar for further legal action. 

As many as 232 illegal migrants, including Rohingyas and Bangladesh nationals, have been apprehended by the RPF under the jurisdiction of the NF Railway between January 1, 2023 and August 28, 2023.

The Tripura police have arrested at least 52 Rohingyas this year alone in the state which have been considered as one of the highest in recent years.

The Tripura police, having a nationwide network to track the illegal trespass of Rohingyas, acted on a different action plan to nab these refugees, who infiltrated to the bordering state, in a bid to travel to other parts of the country.

The Tripura police have increased their efforts to nab the Rohingya refugees and have been focussing on the “border touts” who help them to enter the country. The Tripura police is also trying to find out the vulnerable points and routes from where these Rohingyas sneak into the state.

The Rohingyas are a stateless Indo-Aryan ethnic group who predominantly follow Islam and mostly reside in the Rakhine state of Myanmar.

Before the Rohingya genocide in 2017, when over a population of 7,40,000 Rohingyas fled to Bangladesh, an estimated 1.4 million of them lived in Myanmar.

Described by journalists and news outlets as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world, the Rohingyas are denied citizenship under the 1982 Myanmar nationality law. 

There are also restrictions on their freedom of movement, access to state education and civil service jobs.