Assam ‘pushed back’ 88 alleged foreigners from Cachar to Bangladesh in a month, says CM

The Assam government has “pushed back” 88 alleged “illegal infiltrators” to Bangladesh from Cachar district in one month, said Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday.

Sarma claimed that among persons forced into Bangladesh, 59 are nationals of the country and 29 are Rohingya refugees, who were tracked and identified “through special operations”.

Cachar shares a 32-km-long border with Bangladesh.

“For far too long have illegal infiltrators gone scot free,” the Assam chief minister claimed in a social media post. “We are tolerating it no more.”

For far too long have illegal infiltrators gone scot free.

WE ARE TOLERATING IT NO MORE.

We have begun intensified operations against illegal infiltrators and in the last 1 month, in Cachar district alone, we have pushed back 88 Bangladeshis and Rohingyas back to Bangladesh. pic.twitter.com/e7fDcWLLk8— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) June 25, 2025

The Assam government has been forcing people over the border into Bangladesh since May. Many of those “pushed” into the country claim they are Indian citizens.

On Sunday, the state police detained 15 persons, including women and children, in Cachar. They were suspected to be from Bangladesh and have since been housed at a temporary detention facility in Silchar, reported India Today NE.

Several of the detainees had been living in Gujarat’s Surat but came to Assam in a bid to cross back to Bangladesh amid a...

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