Guwahati: Around 30 Bangladeshi nationals including three women who were lodged in various detention camps in Assam were deported to Bangladesh on July 25th, 2019.
As per reports, the illegal immigrants were deported through the Kalibari Ghat border check post in southern Assam’s Karimganj district after completion of all the formalities. They were received by Bangladeshi authorities in Sylhet district of the country.
According to the Karimganj Superintendent of Police(SP), Manabendra Debroy the infiltration started since 2015 and they were arrested for not being able to produce valid documents. They were nabbed from 10 districts and lodged in the Goalpara, Kokrajhar, Jorhat, Silchar and Tezpur detention camps accordingly.
The immigrants hailed from Brahmanbaria, Chittagong, Comilla, Pabna, Sylhet and other districts of Bangladesh, as per reports.
Last year, a group of Bangladeshi diplomats in India had visited the camps and collected data on the immigrants for repatriation as per protocol.