Ten people, suspected to be illegal Rohingya immigrants, were arrested from a Rajdhani Express train at the New Jalpaiguri station in West Bengal, a railway official said on Wednesday.
Among them were three men, two women and five children, he said.
They had allegedly crossed over on January 10 from Comilla in Bangladesh to Sonamura in Tripura and had boarded the train at Agartala on January 11 with the help of an agent, the official said.
They had fled from the Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh's Cox Bazar.
All of them were handed over to the GRP at New Jalpaiguri for appropriate legal action, the spokesperson of the Northeast Frontier Railway said.
The train superintendent during ticket checking on the Agartala-New Delhi Rajdhani Express found them to be suspicious and informed the railway police, he said.
As the train arrived at New Jalpaiguri around 1.40 pm on Tuesday they were arrested and immediately de-boarded.
Dozens Of Rohingyas Killed In Drone Attack While Fleeing Myanmar "Soft Stance On Rohingya": Himanta Sarma Rips Into Bengal, Jharkhand Rohingya Refugees Flee To Bangladesh Amid Escalating Violence In Myanmar MK Stalin Asks Centre To Recall Tamil Nadu Governor In Row Over Anthem US Man Wakes Up On Operating Table As Doctors Prepare To Remove His Heart Salman Khan Gets Fresh Threat: 'Pay Rs 5 Crore To End Enmity With Bishnoi' 3 Decades Later, First Brown Dwarf Ever Found Offers A Surprise "We Have A Lot Of Interest In Indian Films": Putin Praises Bollywood Sugar Content In Baby Foods Among Issues Under Parliamentary Panel Scanner Track Latest News Live on NDTV.com and get news updates from India and around the world.