Guwahati: Sixteen infiltrators, including 10 Rohingyas, were pushed back from Assam early on Friday, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
He reiterated that the state government remains firmly committed to strengthening border security.
Taking to X, chief minister Sarma wrote, “Another smooth operation! Six Bangladesh nationals and ten Rohingyas safely sent back through Gate 39 at 00:30 hrs, as clean and precise as a Mission Impossible scene.”
Assam’s borders stay secure, our team stays vigilant, and no multiverse anomaly detected, he added.
On November 7, 9 Bangladeshi nationals were apprehended and repatriated from Sribhumi and Cachar districts. Praising the police in both districts, the chief minister said every illegal immigrant identified in the operation was swiftly caught and deported.
Assam’s Sribhumi, Cachar, Dhubri, and South Salmara-Mankachar districts share a 267.5-km-long international border with Bangladesh.
The state has an Integrated Check Post (ICP) at Sutarkandi in Sribhumi, one of the three ICPs along the India-Bangladesh border in the Northeast — the others being at Dawki in Meghalaya and Akhaura in Tripura. Another ICP is located at Darranga in Assam along the India-Bhutan border.
The Assam government has intensified its crackdown on illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, pushing them back from the Assam border.
