Twenty Bangladeshi nationals, including a woman, were on Saturday sent back home via the Sutarkandi border check-point in southern Assam’s Karimganj district.
Officials said the deportation process was conducted smoothly by the border defence forces of both the countries.
“These 20 were detained for illegal entry into the country between 2014 and 2018. Six of them are Hindus and 14 Muslimsand they were brought from two detention camps,” said Manabendra Dev Roy, the district’s Superintendent of Police.
The Bangladeshi nationals were deported around 1.30 p.m. Of them, 19 were brought from southern Assam’s Silchar Central Jail, while the woman was brought from western Assam’s Kokrajhar Central Jail. Saturday’s deportation was the second after 21 Bangladeshi nationals were sent home on January 19.