International Desk: At least 16 Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested by the country's law and order forces in a separate operation in Tripura, India. Tripura police said on Sunday that these Bangladeshis have been arrested in the last 48 hours.

Arrest

According to the report of Assam's local media The Sentinel Assam, Indian Government Railway Police (GRP), Border Guard Force BSF and North-East Frontier Railway Protection Force RPF arrested the Bangladeshis in a joint operation.

It is said that those Bangladeshis entered India illegally. Later they were arrested from Tripura railway station. A team of BSF and RPF arrested four Bangladeshi nationals including a woman during a routine search on the Tripura Sundari Express train at Dharmanagar railway station on Thursday.

During police interrogation, the group of four confessed to entering India through the Sonamura border in Tripura's Sipahijala district with the help of a cross-border smuggling ring. The Bangladeshis said they had planned to go to Delhi, the capital of India, in search of jobs.

Apart from this, railway police arrested 12 Bangladeshis including a teenage girl from Teliamura railway station in Tripura's Khoai district in a separate operation. At that time, daily necessities including mobile phones were recovered from them.

Later, all the arrested Bangladeshi nationals were handed over to the BSF for legal action.