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Illegal intrusions of foreigners, cross border smuggling drastically spike up in Tripura : 10 Nigerians detained from India-Bangladesh border in last 3 months
TIWN Jan 30, 2017
Illegal intrusions of foreigners, cross border smuggling drastically spike up   in Tripura : 10 Nigerians detained from India-Bangladesh border in last 3 months
PHOTO : BSF patrolling at Indo-Bangla border. TIWN File Photo.

Agartala, Jan 30 (TIWN): Atleast 10 Nigerians were detained in last few months from Tripura. Whereas the continuous illegal Bangladeshis entries have remained as a common sensitive problem here, but now within a gap of few days one after one Nigerians are nabbed by BSFs. On Sunday also at Tripura Dist Court premise, DGP K Nagraj said that Tripura has no Extremism threat, but the Border Security Force (BSF) on Sunday detained a Nigerian national while trying to cross the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura with two others who managed to escape, an official said. But the DGP till day never mentioned about the Nigerians presence in Tripura. Sources said that already many African criminals are residing over Tripura and involved in smuggling kinds of activities, but Tripura Police is in slumber with the imaginary concept of ‘security’.

"Three Nigerian youths tried to cross over to Bangladesh early Sunday morning at Belonia (in southern Tripura). BSF patrol party detained one 23-year-old Nigerian. Two of his companions managed to escape," BSF official Rabin Taijon told reporters. 

The BSF handed over the detainee to the Tripura Police which launched a search operation to nab the other two. The youth said that they are the members of a Manipur football club team. They have no passports and they came to Tripura from Kolkata en-route to Bangladesh, Taijon said. Senior police officials are now interrogating the youth.

According to the police, during the last three months ten Nigerian youths were detained by the BSF while trying to cross over to Bangladesh illegally in bordering Belonia sub-division.

Apart from that smuggling on cannabis is rising rampantly in the state with no action from the authority for curtailing the business of Ganja cultivation and smuggling. Even when the State is massively hit with the Ganja plantation, the authority is reluctant to make any comment over the Ganja drive with just one sentence that ‘the drives are going on in the areas.

According to a source, large parts of Bangladesh and Myanmar are emerging as drug consuming zones, and bordering areas of Tripura are contributing to the fast­ emerging drugs market. Smugglers based in Tripura are sending these contraband items to Bangladesh virtually by the truckload, hundreds of acres of remote land in West Tripura have become sprawling Ganja plantations, the source informed.

 

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