According to Himanta Biswa Sarma, the chief minister of Assam, eighteen foreign people were apprehended in the state for entering the country illegally and deported back. However, he withheld information about these infiltrators' origins and ethnicity.
"They want to conquer Assam and the Northeast and starve India." Sarma wrote on X on Wednesday night, "In the meantime, we're busy feeding development, driving growth, and sending 18 illegals on an all-expense-paid exit tour back to their hell hole."
"Too bad for them: Assam isn't hungry, just vigilant and decisive!" Sarma remarked. Bangladesh shares a 267.5-kilometer international boundary with the districts of Sribhumi, Cachar, Dhubri, and South Salmara-Mankachar in Assam.
Sutarkandi in Sribhumi is home to an Integrated Check Post (ICP). There are three ICPs in the Northeast along the boundary between India and Bangladesh; the other two are located in Dawki in Meghalaya and Akhaura in Tripura.
Along the India-Bhutan border near Darranga, Assam, there is another ICP in the area. Following political unrest in the neighboring country last year, Assam Police had earlier said that the state force and BSF will take all necessary steps to stop any effort by non-Indians to enter the country from Bangladesh in accordance with the law.
All Indian passport holders, however, would be permitted to use the state's entry gates to return from Bangladesh, which is now experiencing unrest.
