NIA arrests six folks for trafficking Rohingya Muslims into India

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The NIA has arrested six individuals who had been allegedly a part of a syndicate concerned within the unlawful trafficking of Rohingya Muslims into Indian territory, an official mentioned on Saturday.

The community was working within the border areas of Assam, West Bengal, Meghalaya in addition to different components of the nation, the official of the premier investigation company mentioned.

The six folks had been a part of a syndicate concerned within the unlawful trafficking of Rohingya Muslims into the Indian territory, the official mentioned, with out divulging additional particulars.

Hundreds of hundreds of Rohingya Muslims, described by the UN as essentially the most persecuted minority on the earth, fled their houses in 2017 to flee an alleged crackdown by the Myanmarese army.

Human rights group Amnesty International has blamed Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and the nation’s authorities for “burying their heads in the sand over the horrors unfolding in Rakhine State”.

In October 2018, the Indian authorities deported seven Rohingya immigrants, who had been staying in Assam illegally, to their nation of origin Myanmar, in a primary such transfer.