Tripura police has arrested two human traffickers in Agartala while report came from Gandacherra said the infiltrators has found new routes to enter into India and eleven Rohingyas were arrested on Saturday from Gandacherra.

The bordering Tripura, which is a top hotspot travelling destination for human trafficking, specially for Rohingyas and Bangladesh nationals, who were illegally entered into Indian territory and moves towards other parts of the country through different means of surface communication with help of Indian touts, but many time, the alert security forces have also managed to detain them.

In its latest edition, the police on Saturday managed to arrest two kingpins involved with human trafficking of Rohingyas and Bangladeshi.

Giving details the officer-in-charge (OC) of Government Railway police (GRP), Agartala station said that on April 30, 2024 last, the GRP along with RPF had arrested six Bangladesh and one Indian tout from Agartala railway station and had registered a specific FIR.

Based on the interrogation statements of all arrested Bangla nationals and touts, the investigation team are looking for two kingpins involved in trafficking of foreigners through Tripura borders.

On Saturday, a team of GRP with help of police personnel from Sidhai police station managed to arrest two human traffickers from border Sidhai area, who were identified as Bapan Bhowmik (20) and Goutam Sarkar, are the residents of Harinakhala area under Sidhai police station, said police and added that the houses of both traffickers with adjacent of barbed wire fencing of Indo-Bangla border. They were running their human trafficking activities for many years and finally, on Saturday police managed to arrest them.

The OC of GRP said that police has registered a specific case against them under section 120(B), 221 and 370 of IPC along with the Foreigners Act and produced them before a local court with police remand appeals for interrogation.

Police hoped that during interrogation, they will have vital information over the human trafficking network running from the borders of the state and will burst the entire network.

It may be recalled here that NIA has conducted raids in multiple locations across Tripura over the human trafficking network and subsequent arrest of 21 human traffickers in the first part of November, 2023 last and has also continued their operations in many parts of the country to burst international rackets of human trafficking.