The Border Security Force of India pushed at least 26 more people, including 11 children, into Bangladesh through two border points in Sherpur and Moulvibazar districts on Friday.
With the latest push-ins, the number of people, including Rohingyas and Indian nationals, pushed into Bangladesh by the BSF since May 7 has increased to 1,965.
The Indian BSF has so far pushed at least 159 Rohingyas, including 50 registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in India, into Bangladesh.
The BSF pushed at least聽 21 individuals into Bangladesh through Nakugaon border in Sherpur in the early hours of Friday, Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reported.
Of the 21, five are male, five female and 11 children, said Lieutenant Colonel Mehedy Hasan, commanding officer of 39 Border Guard Bangladesh.
On receiving the information, BGB-39 members detained them, he said, adding that the identities of the detainees were being investigated.
He said that BGB members were on alert for preventing any illegal activities along border areas.
Meanwhile, 抖阴精品 staff correspondent in Sylhet reported that the BSF pushed five more people into Bangladesh through a border point in Baralekha upazila in Moulvibazar early Friday.
BGB-52 Battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Mohammad Ariful Haque Chowdhury said that the BSF pushed the five individuals, including four men and one woman, into Bangladesh territory at around 5:20am through Kumarshail border point at the Baralekha upazila.
He said that a BGB Latu border outpost patrol team, however, detained them immediately after they were pushed in.
鈥楾hey have admitted in the primary interrogation that they had crossed into India about a week ago through different border points in Jashore, Mymensingh, Brahmanbaria and Moulvibazar district in search of jobs,鈥� he said.
He said that the detainees were handed over to the Baralekha police station around noon.
Baralekha police station officer-in-charge Abul Kashem Sarker told 抖阴精品 in the afternoon that handing the detainees over to their relatives was under process.
Earlier, the Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that Indian authorities had expelled more than 1,500 Bengali Muslims to Bangladesh in recent weeks without due process, claiming that they are 鈥榠llegal immigrants.
The international rights watchdog, in a press release posted on its website, said that the people expelled between May 7 and June 15 this year included Indian citizens and about 100 Rohingyas from Myanmar.
India鈥檚 detention and expulsion of anyone without due process is violation of fundamental human rights, the HRW said.
The organisation urged the Indian government to stop unlawfully deporting people without due process and instead ensure everyone鈥檚 access to procedural safeguards to protect against arbitrary detention and expulsion.
