Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said that 13 foreign nationals who were attempting to enter India illegally were apprehended in the state and subsequently pushed back.
In a post on X, the Chief Minister reiterated the state government’s firm stand against illegal immigration. “We are committed to ensuring the rights of illegal immigrants — their right to remain in their homeland and their right to be pushed back. Respecting these rights, we pushed back 13 immigrants to the other side of the border,” he said.
However, CM Sarma did not disclose details regarding the origin or ethnicity of the apprehended infiltrators.
Assam’s Sribhumi, Cachar, Dhubri and South Salmara-Mankachar districts share 267.5 km of the international border with Bangladesh.
There is an Integrated Check Post (ICP) at Sutarkandi in Sribhumi. Northeast has a total of three ICPs along the India-Bangladesh border and the other two are at Dawki in Meghalaya and Akhaura in Tripura.
There is another ICP in the region at Darranga in Assam along the India-Bhutan border.
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Earlier, Assam Police said the force, in coordination with the Border Security Force (BSF), would intensify measures to prevent illegal entry by foreign nationals from Bangladesh, particularly in the wake of political unrest in the neighbouring country last year.
