“Ground Report: Tripura’s three small towns that have become the primary entry points for Rohingyas into Bharat”, Swarajyamag, November 17, 2023:

“NIA Raids across the country on November 8The arrest of 44 touts who were involved in trafficking Rohingyas and Bangladeshis into India by a joint team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Assam Police’s Special Task Force (STF) through Tripura has laid bare a complex smuggling network spread across the country. 

The busting of this network earlier this month was the result of painstaking investigations launched by the STF several months ago. The NIA-STF teams discovered that while the infiltration from Bangladesh happened primarily through eight towns along the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura, it was through three of these towns–Sonamura, Belonia and Bishnupur–that thousands of Rohingyas have been smuggled into India. 

Swarajya travelled to these three distant towns in Tripura to get a first-hand account of this racket that represents a national security threat…….”

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