Despite the Supreme Court of India banning the government from deporting Rohingya refugees from the country, Indian border force has sent 18 of them into Bangladesh through the Satkhira border. The refugees turned up in Kalaroa Chandanpur in the district on Friday morning, said local Union Parishad Member Md Nazrul Islam. “At 7 in the morning, these people suddenly entered my home, which is about 100 yards from the border,” Nazrul told the Dhaka Tribune over phone. The Rohingya had told him people from the Ganarajpur Border Security Force camp in Basirhaat, North 24 Parganas had forced them to come here. The sheltered refugees are Rupiya Khatun, Rokeya Khatun, Abu Taher, Abdur Rahim, Rehana Khatun, Alimuddin, Shahrukh, Azizur, Jiarul, Jubaid, Sumaiya, Gulshan Aram Enayetur, Mahbub, Jubair, Sufia, Rashida and Salma Khatun.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 13, 2017 14:37 UTC