Nigerian national arrested while trying to illegally enter Bangladesh from India
Thompson Nsisongabasi
Sep 30, 2020
A Nigerian national identified as Chikanso Ibezim and a woman were apprehended by Border Security Force when they tried to enter Bangladesh through Hazrakhali outpost in West Bengal's Nadia district on Tuesday, September 29.
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The border guards had stopped the two persons near the outpost in the early hours of Tuesday September 29, when they were trying to cross the border, a BSF statement said.
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Ibezim, who currently residing in Noida area, near Delhi, said he had come to India on a student visa in October, 2015.
He told the interrogators that he had come to Kolkata in a special train from New Delhi one day back, hired a taxi to reach Bagula in Nadia district, and was planning to cross over to Bangladesh "to visit the country as a traveller", the statement said.
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The Nigerian, who had done his M.Tech from Mewar University, said that he had paid money to a tout.
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The woman has been identified as Laxmi Rajbanshi, a resident of Kanchrapara in North 24 Parganas district.
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She had been asked by the same tout to cross the border along with the Nigerian, Rajbanshi told the interrogators.
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Both persons have been handed over to the Hanskhali police station and a manhunt has been launched for the tout, the statement said.
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