24 Bangladeshi youths arrested in Tripura

A total of twenty-four Bangladeshi youths were arrested on Thursday with fake Indian identity cards at the Agartala railway station in India.

All of them were carrying fake Aadhaar cards, and a team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) from Guwahati will interrogate them on Friday, a senior police official told the PTI.

Aadhaar is a 12-digit unique identification number issued to Indian citizens by the central government.

Acting on a tip-off, members of Mobile Task Force (MTF), which deals with illegal immigration and related cases, raided the railway station and arrested the 24 Bangladeshis, who reached there from Delhi by Tripura Sundari Express, said MTF Superintendent of Police Abhijit Chowdhury.

“All of them were carrying fake Aadhaar cards, showing they were issued from West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. We checked the Aadhaar cards online and found they were fake. Some of them had identity cards issued from different madrasas of our country,” said the official.

“The youths were not carrying any valid passports. Three had Bangladeshi passports but those expired long ago," he said.

Source: Agencies