Bangladeshi migrants arrested, a well-organised racket is operating in
the district and helping the Bangladeshis enter the country.
Hunt for Dhubri Bangladeshi migrants
OUR CORRESPONDENT Dhubri, June 19: Police today launched a hunt in
Dhubri district, a day after the arrest of five Bangladeshi migrants.
The move follows reports that a larger group of Bangladeshis had managed to
evade surveillance.
A team led by deputy superintendent of police (headquarters) Subhashish
Barua, arrested the five from Amco Road, Char Bidyapara and Bogulamari on the
outskirts of Dhubri town. Officer-in-charge of Dhubri police station, Moni
Saikia and officer-in-charge of Amco Road Bazar police out-post, Zakir Ahmed,
accompanied the team.
Sources in the police said the five who had been arrested earlier had alerted
the group, reportedly through cellphones. According to the tip-off, a large
group of illegal migrants from Bangladesh were taking shelter in these areas.
However, most of them fled during the raids.
We are also investigating how these Bangladeshis managed to procure mobile
connections. We are taking up the matter with the higher authorities, said a
senior police official involved in the operation.
The five have been identified as Sofiqul Islam (21), Mohammad Abdul Khayer
(40), Mohammad Baser Shiekh (35), Imdad Shiekh (32) and Mohammad Ismail Sheikh
(22). They hail from Goghalia village of Gopalganj district in Bangladesh, the
police said.
Safiqul Islam told the police during interrogation that he had sneaked into
India in 1995 through the Bongaon international border in West Bengal and
settled in Bogulamari. Most of us came to India in search of jobs. We have
been selling mosquito nets, bedsheets and utensils to earn our livelihood,
Islam told the police.
However, the police said a well-organised racket was operating in the
district and helping the Bangladeshis enter the country. They provide the
migrants with shelter, jobs and even protection in exchange for money.
The police said they came to know about the racket following the arrest of
one Mohammad Katon Biswas last month from Bilasipara.
Biswas allegedly was an agent of a group engaged in trafficking.
The All Assam Students Union said the arrest was just the tip of the
iceberg. The students unions border affairs co-ordinator, Enamul Hoque,
alleged that there is contin-uous infiltration through the Indo-Bangla border
in Dhubri.
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