31 Bangladeshi nationals apprehended in Guwahati. Details here

As many as 31 Bangladeshi nationals have been apprehended in Guwahati in Assam on Monday. The alleged illegal migrants were detained while they were on their way to Bangladesh via Agartala via Kanchenjunga express, reported by the news agency ANI.

They were apprehended from Guwahati railway station's platform number 1 by the railway police officials during a routine checking. When they were asked to present documents or any identity proofs, they could not provide any solid documents to ascertain their identities. They reportedly entered Guwahati on Sunday from Bangalore where they have been working for the last three years.

Furthermore, it is said that these Bangladeshi’s illegally entered India two-three years back from where they moved to Bengaluru, Karnataka in search of work.

"Today at around 10 AM when the railway officials were conducting routine checking around the station, they found few suspicious people on the station. When they questioned them and asked to produce some IDs, they said that they were from Bangladesh and had come from Bangalore yesterday. They were going to their native village in Bangladesh," said Guwahati's Railway Police DSP, Iftekar Ali, speaking to Republic TV.

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Republic TV spoke to one of the apprehended suspects who stated that ‘many other Bangladeshi families have been living in Bengaluru. They are doing petty jobs there for survival’.

“I was living with my family in Bengaluru.  My family used to work as a house help in various homes there,” said one of the Bangladeshi nationals.

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This development has come months after the Assam government released the second and final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) on July 30, 2018, in order to solve the problem of illegal immigrants in the country. As per the exercise, which was directly monitored by the Supreme Court, those who have entered Assam after March 24, 1971, will be viewed as illegal immigrants.