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Four Rohingyas and five Indians arrested in Tripura

Agartala, Mar 16 (UNI) Border Security Force (BSF) on Saturday arrested four Rohingyas and five Indians of them two allegedly involved in human trafficking from different locations of North Tripura and Unakoti districts in separate operations and produced them in the respective courts seeking remand.
The Intelligence wing of BSF managed to detain two Rohingyas and an Indian tout from Inter-State Bus Terminal (ISBT) of Dharmanagar on their way to Southern India looking for jobs.
Detained Rohingyas were identified as Mantaju Hoq (37), and Jahid Alam (32) with two young girls who were from Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh. Arrested Indian tout was identified as Abdul Hoque.
In another incident, BSF jawans posted at Yakub Nagar of Kailashahar in Unakoti district detained three Indian citizens and a tout, where they tried to enter Bangladeshi's territory from the Indian side. They were identified as Samarjit Chandra Das (50) and his wife Swapna Bala Das (47) and Rabindra Kumar Das (65) of Hojai district of Assam. India tout was identified as Sahim Miah (24) of Dharmanagar.
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