The rail tracks between India and Bangladesh on the fenced worldwide border on the outskirts of Agartala on May 26, 2025.
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As many as 160 undocumented migrants from Bangladesh had been flown on an Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft to Agartala from Ghaziabad on Sunday (May 25, 2025) to be despatched throughout to the neighbouring nation, a senior authorities official instructed The Hindu.
The particular flight took off from Ghaziabad and landed on the Agartala airport on Sunday (May 25, 2025).
The migrants included ladies and kids who had been detained by the Delhi Police from outer Delhi final week throughout a drive to establish unlawful immigrants. The official mentioned that the transportation is according to the federal government’s choice to ship the undocumented migrants to Bangladesh slightly than anticipate the deportation course of which is “lengthy”.
Following the Pahalgam terror assault on April 22, 2025, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has requested the States to intensify the drive towards undocumented migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar. The Hindu reported first on May 14 that the federal government was sending the migrants throughout the Bangladesh border for over the previous one month. More than 500 migrants have been despatched throughout the japanese border to this point. On May 17, 2025, round 140 undocumented migrants from Rajasthan had been flown to Agartala on an Air India aircraft and despatched to Bangladesh.
Earlier, on May 4, 2025, two Air India planes transported 300 undocumented migrants, together with 200 ladies and kids, who had been earlier detained in Gujarat, to Agartala and subsequently despatched to Bangladesh through the land border.
On April 23, 2025, the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) underneath MHA intimated the Kolkata Police that 80 undocumented migrants from Delhi had been being introduced by prepare to the town from the place they had been to be taken to the border for being handed over to the Border Security Force.
On May 10, 2025, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma mentioned at a press convention in Guwahati that the federal government had determined to implement the “push back” mechanism to verify infiltration as an alternative of going by the authorized route.
The detainees are completely different from the Bangladeshis who both overstayed their visas or who entered the nation legally. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) mentioned on May 22, 2025 that India has requested Bangladesh to confirm the nationality of two,369 “illegal migrants” in order that they are often deported. MEA mentioned that some instances have been pending for greater than 5 years.
Explaining the method, one other authorities official mentioned that every one authorities departments have been assigned obligations.
The police throughout the nation have been conducting drives to establish undocumented migrants following which the FRRO is knowledgeable. In Delhi, after the migrants have been detained, they’re taken to two detention centres situated at Bakkarwala and Inderlok in north-west and west Delhi respectively.
“The FRRO arranges for their transportation, they are then handed over to the Border Security Force,” mentioned the official.
Once they’re detained, their biometrics are taken and saved with the MHA and Indian paperwork procured by them fraudulently are cancelled.
“The biometrics are being captured to ensure that if they manage to enter the country again, they are not able to register again for documents such as Aadhaar. Their details are shared with the Aadhaar authorities who have been asked to prepare a blacklist,” mentioned the official.
On Monday (May 26, 2025), Brigadier General Md. Nazim-ud-Daula, director of the Military Operations Directorate of the Bangladesh Army, mentioned at a press convention in Dhaka that “push-ins are unacceptable”. “BGB (Border Guards Bangladesh) is handling it efficiently, and if needed, the army will step in under government instruction. For now, BGB is managing well, within international protocols,” he mentioned, in accordance to Daily Star, Bangladesh.
After political modifications in Bangladesh in August 2024, on the instructions of MHA, the States began a crackdown on illegally staying foreigners within the nation. The drive intensified after the Pahalgam terror assault.
Published – May 27, 2025 12:19 am IST