India deports 30 Bangladesh nationals

At least 30 Bangladeshis, kept at various detention camps for trespassing into India, were deported yesterday, Indian police sources said.    

They were taken to Karimganj Police Station from camps in Silchar, Karimganj, Tezpur, Jorhat, Dibrugarh, and Kokrajhar districts of Assam. They had been kept there after being declared illegal aliens by the Illegal Foreigners Tribunals in Assam, the sources said.

The Bangladeshis were put on boats for crossing the Kushiyara river and handed over to Bangladesh authorities.

Ayub Ali, commander of the BGB 19 Battalion’s border outpost in Zakiganj, police SI Rafiqual Islam, and Indian police and BSF officials were present during the handing over of the Bangladeshis.

Some of the deportees had entered Assam five to six years ago, said an Indian official. 

The Bangladeshis were identified as Nurul Alom, Abdul Kalam Azad, Waidul Hoque, Babul Sardar, Mohammad Jabed, Ariful Hakim, Momin Ali, Majahar Mollah, Saddam Hussain, Jahangir Alam, Fajar Ali Mollah, Ajbahar Payada, Kartik Chandra Sheel, Unish Ali, Nur Mohammad Gazi, Suchitra Biswas, Saleha Aktar, Asma Begum, Abdul Kuddus, Nurul Amin, Chand Mia, Elias Ahmed, Lakhan Chakraborty, Jahangir Alom,  Abdul Kalam Molla, Abdullah, Abdul Kashem, Jahangir Alam, Abdul Kayer and Ashish Das.