Overview

• A joint team conducted a search of an express train at Agartala station late Sunday and detained three suspects based on specific intelligence.
• Police identified the Bangladeshi national as 63-year-old Jhil Mill from Khulna district, who lacked valid entry documents.
• Indian middlemen Sagar Mandal and Subrata Das from West Tripura district are accused of facilitating Mill’s illicit border crossing.
• Authorities say the trio was traveling to New Delhi for medical treatment and is now under interrogation over links to a wider trafficking racket.
• The arrests form part of nationwide operations in states including Assam, West Bengal, Delhi and Haryana aimed at detaining and deporting undocumented Bangladeshis.