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Assam Police Apprehend 18 Bangladeshi Nationals in Guwahati
Assam Police said they apprehended 18 Bangladeshi nationals in separate operations in Guwahati.
One operation took place at Guwahati Railway Station on Tuesday.
Officers checking train coaches found five people: four women and one man.
They were on a train scheduled to travel to Maharashtra.
Police said the group had three Aadhaar cards, and one card had a genuine number.
Police said the five had no valid documents to enter India.
They told officers they were Bangladeshi nationals.
Police said they planned to travel to Mumbai to look for jobs.
The article does not give details about the other 13 people apprehended.
Assam Police apprehended 18 Bangladeshi nationals in separate operations in Guwahati.
Five people—four women and one man—were detained during routine coach checks at Guwahati Railway Station on Tuesday.
The five were found in the general coach of a Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express train bound for Maharashtra.
Police said three Aadhaar cards were found with them, and one had a genuine Aadhaar number.
Police said the five had entered India without valid documents and intended to travel to Mumbai to seek work.
- Who
- Assam Police apprehended 18 Bangladeshi nationals; the article gives details about five of them.
- What
- The five were detained during routine train-coach checks, and police said they had entered India without valid documents.
- Where
- Separate operations took place in Guwahati; the described train check was at Guwahati Railway Station.
- When
- Tuesday; the article does not specify the date.
- Why
- Police said the five planned to travel to Mumbai to seek employment. The article does not state why the other 13 were travelling.
Key facts
- Total apprehended
- 18 Bangladeshi nationals in separate operations in Guwahati
- Group described
- Five people: four women and one man
- Location of described operation
- Guwahati Railway Station
- Train
- Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express, scheduled to depart for Maharashtra
- Cards found
- Three Aadhaar cards; police said one Aadhaar number was genuine
- Stated travel plan
- Travel to Mumbai by train to seek employment
Quotes
Assam Police
Police authority describing the 13 people apprehended in Guwahati.
“They had reached Guwahati on Wednesday morning from Delhi and wanted to go back to Bangladesh. During interrogation, they confessed that they stayed illegally in India for the last 14-15 years near Pantha Chowk in Srinagar and as Srinagar Police had launched a massive crackdown, they fled and reached Guwahati to go back to their country of origin.”
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“During preliminary enquiry, it was revealed that they were intending to travel to Mumbai by train in search of employment. They had entered India illegally without possessing any valid documents and confessed that they were Bangladeshi nationals. They belong to Dhaka, Bogura, Rajbari, Narail and Jamalpur districts of Bangladesh.”
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Sources
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