Detained from an Assam-bound train

Seven Rohingya persons were arrested from an Assam-bound train here on Sunday, the police said.

They were detained at the Dharmanagar railway station in North Tripura district and later handed over to the Tripura police.

Assistant Sub-Inspector of Railway Police Force Laxman Debbarma, who is in charge of a RPF contingent at the Dharmanagar railway station, said the seven were detained after security personnel found them behaving in a suspicious manner in the station premises.

Those arrested — six girls and a boy — are in their teens.

“All the detainees were having valid general category tickets from Agartala railway station till Badarpur Junction in Assam. On suspicion, we made a preliminary interrogation and found all of them to be Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar. Later, they were handed over to local police at Dharmanagar,” Mr. Debbarma said.

North Tripura district Superintendent of Police Bhanupada Chakraborty said the detainees were being interrogated.

Last month, 67 Rohingya persons were arrested in Tripura. Of them, 31 were holed up at the Indo-Bangla international border behind the barbed wire fencing before the BST arrested them.