West Bengal: Two Rohingya males arrested from Nadia, remanded in judicial custody

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Two males from Myanmar’s Rohingya neighborhood had been arrested from West Bengal’s Nadia district on Sunday night time on costs of illegally getting into India, the police stated.

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“The men, who appear to be in their late 20s or early 30s, were arrested from Krishnaganj area. They had no documents whatsoever. Both claimed to have sneaked into West Bengal through the Bangladesh border one year ago,” a police official stated, requesting anonymity.

The Rohingya males, who recognized themselves as Muhammad Noor and Muhammad Javad, had been produced earlier than a Nadia court docket on Monday and remanded in judicial custody.

The arrests had been made inside two kilometers of the spot in Krishnaganj the place the Border Safety Pressure (BSF) found 4 underground bunkers three days in the past. Though cough syrup price round ₹1.5 crore was seized from the bunkers, the authorities suspect that the underground chambers might need been used as human shelters. Indian smugglers frequently promote cough syrup to their counterparts in Bangladesh the place the medication is used as narcotic substance.

“We were working as wage labourers at construction sites in Hyderabad. I wanted to return to Bangladesh where my family lives in a camp for Rohingya refugees. My mother is unwell. I wanted to see her,” Javad advised native media individuals in Hindi whereas he was being taken to court docket on Monday afternoon.

Each males had been carrying cell phones once they had been nabbed. “An agent gave us the sim cards after we entered India around a year ago,” Javad stated.

Police stated some villagers in Krishnaganj discovered the 2 males shifting suspiciously and knowledgeable the native police station.

That is the second time in 10 days that Rohingyas have been nabbed in West Bengal throughout an ongoing drive towards unlawful infiltration from Bangladesh because the BSF arrange barbed fences alongside unguarded parts of the worldwide border.

Three Rohingyas, of whom two had been minor ladies, had been arrested by authorities railway police (GRP) at Sealdah railway station in Kolkata on January 18. The person, who recognized himself as Abdul Rehman, claimed that he was taking the ladies to their relations who dwell in Delhi.

The West Bengal police have intensified vigil within the districts alongside the Bangladesh border in view of the unrest within the neighbouring nation since final yr.

At the very least 35 Bangladesh residents have been arrested in West Bengal since December 2024.