Guwahati, October 13 (IANS): The Assam government on Thursday deported ten Bangladeshi nationals, including two minors and a woman, through a border checkpost along the India-Bangladesh border in Assam's Barak Valley. The ten were arrested from the Barak valley at various points in time and lodged in Silchar Central jail. The deportations came after the Indian government handed over a list of 50 Bangladeshi nationals to the Bangladesh authorities at a regular border meeting between the two countries. Cachar Deputy Commissioner S. Vishwanathan. said the Bangladesh government ascertained their identities and agreed to take them back. "They were taken to the Kalibari Ghat border checkpost in Karimganj district on Thursday morning and handed over to Border Guards Bangladesh," he said, adding that most of them hail from Sylhet district of Bangladesh. More than 50 persons of Bangladesh origin are languishing in the Silchar jail and the Assam government has taken up the issue with the Bangladesh government.
