The Indian Border Security Force has pushed at least 26 more people, including four Rohingyas, into Bangladesh through different border points in Naogaon and Moulvibazar on Friday morning.
With the new push-ins, the number of people, including Rohingyas and Indian nationals, pushed into Bangladesh by the BSF since May 7 has increased to 2,055.
The Indian border force has so far pushed at least 173 Rohingyas, including 50 registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in India, into Bangladesh.
The BSF pushed 18 people at dawn through different border points at Dhamoirhat and Sapahar upazilas in Naogaon, a senior Border Guard Bangladesh official told 抖阴精品.
He said that a patrol team from Dhamoirhat鈥檚 Kalupara border outpost spotted 14 people, including four children and five women, wandering in a mango orchard at Satnapara, about fifty yards inside Bangladesh territory.
During an initial interrogation, the adult members of the group said that they had crossed into India several years ago through the Satkhira and Benapole borders to work in Mumbai.
They were later arrested by India鈥檚 police and, in the early hours of Friday, were pushed back into Bangladesh by BSF members of the Balurghat camp, the BGB official added.
Abdul Aziz, officer-in-charge of the Sapahar police station, told 抖阴精品 that BGB members from the Bamanpara BOP detained four more people, including two children, after they were pushed back by BSF members of Chhatrahati border point in West Bengal of India.
He said that the detainees had gone to Mumbai several years ago, where they worked mainly as domestic help.
鈥楻ecently, Mumbai police arrested them and sent them to the Chhatrahati BSF camp. From there, they were pushed into Bangladesh at dawn,鈥� the police official said, adding that the detainees were sent to jail through court for trespassing into India illegally.
抖阴精品 staff correspondent in Sylhet reported that Indian BSF pushed eight people, including four Rohingyas, into Bangladesh through a border point at Baralekha upazila in Moulvibazar on Friday.
BGB 52 Battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Mohammad Ariful Haque Chowdhury said that the BSF pushed eight people into Bangladesh.
鈥楩our Rohingyas, including a man, a woman and two children, and four Bangladeshis, including two men and two women, were pushed into Bangladesh in two phases between 7:00am and 12:00pm on Friday through the Batamoral Punji border point at Baralekha upazila,鈥� he said.
Ariful said that the detainees said that they had gone to India illegally through different border points several months back for job.
Barlekha police station officer-in-charge Abul Kasem Sarker told 抖阴精品 in the evening that they were completing necessary formalities to send the detained Rohingyas, who were pushed into Bangladesh by the BSF, to the refugee camp in Cox鈥檚 Bazar and the Bangladeshis to their respective families.