Tripura: Pakistani woman held for illegal entry, suspected links to human trafficking, drug smuggling

Tripura (Agartala) [India], October 13 (ANI): South Tripura police detained a 65-year-old woman of suspected Pakistani origin at Sabroom Railway Station, as revealed by Murya Krishna C, Superintendent of Police, South Tripura District, on Saturday night.
The woman, identified as Louis Nigat Akhtar Baano, alias Nigat Bano, wife of Md. Gul Faraj, from the Sheikhupura district in Punjab province, Pakistan, was apprehended by the Government Railway Police (GRP) after she arrived on the Kanchanjunga Express from Siliguri.
During questioning, the woman reportedly gave multiple false identities before finally confessing that she is a Pakistani national who had entered India without valid travel documents.
She further revealed that she had previously been imprisoned in Nepal for drug trafficking and had escaped from a Kathmandu jail during recent unrest there.

Police recovered a mobile phone and papers containing several foreign contact numbers, including Pakistani numbers, from her possession.
Authorities suspect her involvement in international criminal networks possibly connected to drug smuggling or human trafficking.
A case has been registered at Sabroom Police Station under the provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the Passport (Entry into India) Act, and the Foreigners Act, 1946. An investigation is underway to identify her local and cross-border associates. (ANI)