Guwahati, Sep 17 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said 12 foreign nationals were prevented from illegally entering India.
He hailed the Assam Police for securing the state from the “threat of demographic invasion”.
“Eyes firm, action warm! Monitoring their movement, @assampolice prevented the illegal entry of 12 infiltrators from the international borders to Assam – securing our state from the threat of demographic invasion,” Sarma said in a post on X on Wednesday evening.
He, however, did not share details such as the infiltrators’ ethnicity, where they were prevented from entering India and their country of origin.
Assam’s Sribhumi, Cachar, Dhubri and South Salmara-Mankachar districts share 267.5 km of international border with Bangladesh.
There is an integrated check post (ICP) at Sutarkandi in Sribhumi. Northeast has a total of three ICPs along the India-Bangladesh border, with the other two being at Dawki in Meghalaya and Akhaura in Tripura.
There is another ICP in the region at Darranga in Assam along the India-Bhutan border.
The Assam Police had earlier said that the state force and the BSF would do everything possible as per the law to prevent any attempt by non-Indians to enter the country from Bangladesh after a political turmoil hit the neighbouring country in 2024.
However, all Indian passport holders have been allowed to return from trouble-hit Bangladesh through the entry point in the state. PTI TR TR BDC
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