Two people, including an Indian woman, were arrested at the Jaintapur border in Sylhet on Monday night as they tried to cross the border to enter India.
The arrested are Shanti Rani Mritti, 60, wife of Mokanda Mandal of Kawkhali under the Nadia district in West Bengal of India, and Mukul Biswas, 33, son of Nepal Biswas of Bahar Sadhukhali village at Baliakandi upazila in Rajbari of Bangladesh, police said.
Jaintapur police station officer-in-charge ABM Badruzzaman confirmed the arrest to 抖阴精品.
He said that on information, the Border Guard Bangladesh and police conducted a drive at Sripur border of the Jaintapur upazila and arrested the two people in the area at around 10:30pm on Monday when they were trying to enter India crossing the border illegally.
The police officer told 抖阴精品 that the Indian woman had been living illegally in the Bahar Sadhukhali area of Rajbari and she tried to return to India along with her relative Mukul.
鈥楾he BGB Sripur camp in-charge Habildar Jahangir filed two separate cases鈥攐ne against the woman for living in Bangladesh without valid documents and another against Mukul for his attempt to enter India illegally with the Jaintapur police station,鈥� he said.
The OC said that the arrested were produced before the District Judicial Magistrate Court on Tuesday noon when the court ordered to send them to jail.
