Seven
Rohingya migrants, all below 18 years, were arrested on Sunday from the
Kanchanjungha Express on their way to neighbouring Assam, officials
said. They were detained at Dharmanagar Railway Station in North Tripura
district and were later handed over to Tripura Police.
Speaking to media, Railway Protection Force (RPF)
assistant Sub Inspector Laxman Debbarma, who is in charge of a small RPF
contingent at Dharmanagar railway station, said the Rohingya migrants
were detained after security personnel found them behaving in a
suspicious manner in the station premises.
The detainees include six girls and one boy. They have been handed over to Dharmanagar Women’s Police Station.
“They were on board the Kanchanjungha Express and had general
category tickets from Agartala till Badarpur junction in Assam. Some of
them alighted on the station and were behaving suspiciously. So we
detained them and later found out they were Rohingyas from Myanmar,”
Debbarma said.
Confirming the report, North Tripura district superintendent of
police Bhanupada Chakraborty said the Rohingyas were being interrogated
about their journey.
In January this year, 67 Rohingyas were arrested in Tripura. Among
them were 31 migrants who were stranded between the international
borders of India and Bangladesh for four days before the Indian
authorities arrested them and handed them over to Tripura Police.
