Assam to deport 30 Bangladeshis tomorrow

The 30 Bangladeshi nationals, including three women, will be deported through legal procedures from International border at Sutarkandi in Karimganj district to Bangladesh.

According to the reports, the Bangladeshi nationals had entered into India without valid documents through different parts of Assam at different times.

The foreigners had been arrested from Sonitpur, Nalbari, Sivasagar, Golaghat, Guwahati, Baksa, Morigaon, Hojai, Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, Dhubri, Mankachar, Dhemaji, Karbi Anglong, Dibrugarh, Cachar, Udalguri districts and they were lodged at different detention camps in the state for the past 2-5 years.

The Bangladeshi nationals have been identified as Nurul Alam, Abdul Kalam Azad, Nahidul Haque, Babul Sardar, Md. Javed, Ariful Hakim, Mamin Alam, Mazahar Mullah, Saddam Hussain, Jahangir Alam (1), Fazar Ali Mullah, Ajibor Piyada, Kartik Chandra Seal, Younis Ali, Nur Mahammad Gaji, Sushitra Biswas, Saleha Akhtar, Ashama Begum, Abdul Kuddus, Nurul Amin, Chand Miya, Ilias Ali, Jahangir Alam (2), Lakhan Chakrabarty, Jahangir Alam (3), Abdul Kalam Mullah, Md. Abdullah, Abdul Kashim, Abdul Karim and Ashish Das.

Among them some were residing in Assam in past several years and the Foreigners’ Tribunals had declared them illegal foreigners.Karimganj district

Superintendent of Police Manabendra Debroy said the Bangladeshi nationals would be deported on July 25 and Assam government has completed all formalities.

“We will deport 30 Bangladeshi nationals to Bangladesh in this phase. They were arrested from 10 different districts of the state,” he said.

On May 4, the Assam government had deported 20 Bangladeshi nationals to Bangladesh.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

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