AGARTALA, Sep 13 (TIWN): Eid Celebration along Indo-Bangla border also fueling cross Border smuggling by Bangladeshi miscreants. Smugglers often enter into state ahead of Eid with cattle smuggling intension but indulge in other narcotics, contraband shipments. In 2015, a smuggler also died at North Tripura when he was retuning back to Bangladesh with few cattles during Eid season.Tripura’s unsealed borders are left without any sign of progress.Sonamura’s 9.5 Km unfenced border and many loose border fencings have been helping smugglers, cross-border Islamic radicals.SP NorthManik Das talking to TIWN on Monday said that “Bangladeshis entrance arestill less in North Tripura, although before few months one suspected Bangladshi was nabbed by police, but right now there is no information of Bangladeshi Muslims’ presence inside the Northern Part of Tripura”. “However, North Tripura is suffering from various other issues like NLFT and Mizo, Reang infiltrations”, SP added. Comparing with Sonamura SP said, “Everyone knows how Sonamura town is opened for Bangladeshis, but in North Tripura it’s only the Kanchanpur area is sensitive area as a large part there is left without any fencing.” “But climbing hills from Bangladesh, the Muslim radicals do not enter here, however NLFT and other similar extremists who are expert with hills enter in North-Tripura”, he added.

“We have sources, and whenever we get informed via source, are ready to fight with such situations”, he said.

Although Manik Das denied Bangladeshis presence in North Tripura but TIWN sources said that Bangladeshi fundamentalists are residing over North Tripura and also are involved in various illegal activities.  In North Tripura there are so many Bangladeshi fundamentalists who have high links with international-terrorist groups. Their numbers are increasing day by day, as state Tripura has become their safe zone.

 Sources said that there are atleast 150 Bangladeshis residing over North Tripura. In DharmanagarBotarshi area, in Dotubal area ateast 20-25 fundamentalists are allegedly living. Source also informed 3 names who are leading that group in Botarshi. They are : 1) Kajaudding, 2) Selimuddin, 3)Soweluddin Three of them are living with Indian Passport and doing fishing cultivation. Whereas Bangladesh is known for fishing cultivation, these people are living in such a hilly state saying they are doing fishing job in Tripura, which is just for name-sake.

 Taking the opportunity of police dept.’s negligence, Bangladeshi who are trying to sneak into India are rapidly increasing in number.

 In September 25, 2015, one Bangladeshi was arrested in North Tripura when Abhijit Saptarshi was the SP there, and accordingly he was sent to jail under the Indian Passports Act. The arrested man was identified as Sabuj Ahmed (25), son of Ruab Ali, a resident of Bhawanipur village in Moulavi Bazar district under Juri police station in Bangladesh, police said. Ahmed was detained by the BSF at theborder village of Yakubnagar in Dharmanagar in North Tripura. He was suspected to have links with a Bangladeshi fundamentalist group.

 Sabuj Ahmed (in 2015) was suspected to have links with a terror group, an associate of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba active in India and Bangladesh.

 Terrorist like him are regularly travelling between the two countries for the last two years without valid documents. But surprisingly, Renu Miah, a resident of Sakaibari in Dharmanagar who gave Sabuj Ahmed shelter is roaming free.

 The condition is worse in Sonamura Border area, under Sepahijala Dist.  Muslim fundamentalist are so much illegally residing atSonamura that the subdivision is often called as the “Mini Pakistan” of Tripura. In this situation the unfenced borders of Tripura is increasing the threat of terrorism day by day.

However, under Tripura PWD supervision, the border fencing work is going utter slow pace, Central Govt. asked the state govt. to complete the unfenced borders soon.

According to Govt. data Tripura shares 856 km India-Bangladesh and 85 percent is fenced so far, whereas Tripura’s 727 KM border is fenced but long 158 km is yet unfenced.