Detained Bangladeshi immigrants were photographed on April 26, 2025 at the office of a crime branch in Ahmedabad. |Photo source: AFP
Government officials told Hindu.
In one example, on May 4, two Indian planes transported 300 undocumented immigrants, including 200 women and children, who were earlier detained in Gujarat and arrived in Agatara, Tripura. They were then sent to Bangladesh through the land border.
On April 26, Gujarat police detained more than 1,000 suspected Bangladeshi nationals from Ahmedabad and Surat.
According to government officials, as many as 295 Bangladesh countries were “deported” in 2024, and from this year to April 30, about 100 Bangladeshi citizens were deported and handed over to the Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB).
according to Daily StarsBangladesh’s Foreign Ministry, Bangladesh Daily, sent a letter to India on May 8: “Raise people’s concerns about people being pushed into the country and urges New Delhi to adhere to the established repatriation mechanism”.
The Foreign Ministry has not commented on the topic.
Rajasthan Minister of Law and Parliamentary Affairs Jogaram Patel said in Jaipur that about 1,000 suspected Bangladeshi nationals were identified as living in different parts of the state. “The first Bangladesh nationals were transported to Jodpur and flew to Kolkata on Wednesday (May 14, 2025). From there, they will be deported to Bangladesh,” Patel said.
Sources said most of the detainees brought to Jodbur were from the Sika district. The rural development officials training centre in Jodpur has been temporarily transformed into a detention center for Bangladesh nationals. Mr Patel said similar eviction procedures will be followed in the next few days.
On May 10, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said at a press conference in Guwahati that the government has decided to implement a “delay” mechanism to check infiltration rather than through legal means.
“Infiltration is a big problem. We now decide that we will not conduct legal proceedings. The earlier decision was to arrest a person and then take him to the legal system of India… Earlier, we also used to arrest 1,000-1,500 foreigners… They had to be sent to prison and then they were sent to court and then they were taken to a country and we would take them to this country because they would become a new country because they would become a new one and we would become a new phenomenon. Withdrawing this number will now be minimized,” said Mr. Salma.
Regarding the concerns raised by Bangladesh, the government official above said: “These are their citizens and they should accept them.”
After political changes in Bangladesh occurred on the instructions of the Union’s Ministry of Interior in August 2024, states began to suppress foreigners who remained in the country illegally. Officials said momentum has increased following the April 22 terrorist attack on Pahargan.
Hindu On March 31, Bangladesh’s voluntary return has also increased after the crackdown.
With 337 undocumented Bangladesh without a visa and passport, they were arrested when they crossed the country from January 2024 to July 2024, and in the following months, the individuals were arrested from August 21 to March 21, 2024, and stayed in 906 from March 21 this year. During this period, from January to March, 411 were recorded in January to March.
The total length of the India-Bangladesh border is 4,096.7 km, of which 3,232.21 km are fences.
(with input from Jaipur Mohammed iqbal)
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