Guwahati: The Tripura Police’s Special Investigation Team (SIT) will look into the influx of Bangladeshi citizens into the region.
The decision was made following the earlier this week detention of 27 Bangladeshis in the nearby Rajnagar and Ramnagar areas of the state capital Agartala.
Twenty citizens of Bangladesh were recently imprisoned in West Tripura’s Sidhai area.
A senior police official said, “In the recent past, a large number of illegal Bangladeshi nationals were arrested and specific cases were registered in appropriate cases with various police stations of Tripura.
The official also said that it has been decided to transfer significant cases to the SIT in order to enable and ensure a concentrated, focused, and end-to-end investigation in coordination with other security agencies working in Tripura and at the national level to identify organised networks involved in such anti-national activities.
According to him, the SIT has been given responsibility for the investigation of a total of six significant incidents involving the infiltration of Bangladeshi nationals.
He added that the BSF authority has also been warned to increase vigil along the border to avoid infiltration from across the border. Infiltration has been recorded from some bordering unfenced regions of the West, Sepahijala, Unakoti, and North districts, he said.