Overview

• The Border Security Force arrested the duo in Sepahijala district on a tip-off and handed them over to Tripura police
• The 35-year-old Bangladeshi woman from Bogra crossed into Tripura without a visa or passport earlier this week
• Police say the couple, who met while she worked in Mumbai and Bengaluru, aimed to travel onward to Bengaluru from Agartala
• They have been charged under the Passports Act, the Foreigners Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and remanded to 14 days of judicial custody
• Tripura police are investigating local agents who may have facilitated the crossing and possible links to organized trafficking