According to a video that has gone viral, two truckloads of 80 Rohingyas from Bangladesh packed their possessions, travelled to a village close to Baruipur City, West Bengal, and received protection from the WB government as vote bank.
Verified accounts on twitter, including @ajaychauhan41 tweeted “Illegal Rohingya In the video you can see that 80 Rohingyas, loaded with their belongings, reached a village near Baruipur city in West Bengal in two trucks from Bangladesh. After reaching there, they will comfortably occupy some government land. Then the state government will provide them security, identity documents and they will become a vote bank. They will be taken to different parts of India. The entire ecosystem from mosques to madrasas including local politicians is involved in settling them. In this way the demography of West Bengal and India has changed in these few years and this trend continues.” on April 21, 2024. The tweet has received an about more than 7k views on X.
अवैध रोहिंग्या
— हम लोग We The People 🇮🇳 (@ajaychauhan41) April 21, 2024
वीडियो में आप देख सकते हैं कि बांग्लादेश से दो ट्रकों में भरकर 80 रोहिंग्या अपने सामान के साथ पश्चिम बंगाल के बारुईपुर शहर के पास एक गांव में पहुंचे।
पहुंचने के बाद वे बड़े आराम से किसी सरकारी जमीन पर कब्जा कर बैठ जायेंगे. फिर राज्य सरकार उन्हें सुरक्षा, पहचान… pic.twitter.com/4G13cVXitu
Several other accounts, including @FrontalForce, @RealBababanaras, @Bishnoibs, @bhagwakrantee, @MithilaWaala made the same claim that after packing their possessions and travelling to a village close to Baruipur city in West Bengal, two truckloads of eighty Rohingyas from Bangladesh arrived. The WB administration would now provide them with protection and turn them into voting banks. The archive can be read from above.
What is the Actual Truth About this Incident? : Fact
In actuality, this is an outdated video that purports to show Rohingyas arriving in Baruipur, West Bengal, in 2018. The issue of Rohingya and Bangladeshi infiltration into India is serious and stringent action must be taken by the Indian government. We visited Hindustan Times, which published an article on this incident on Nov 8, 2023 with the headline “NIA arrests 44 middlemen who trafficked Rohingyas to India in pan-India raids”. In order to look into a bigger connection to illegal immigration, the NIA registered four cases and conducted raids at more than forty locations across ten states. Overall, 55 locations were raided in Tripura, Assam, West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Haryana, Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, and Puducherry. According to people familiar with the incident, they detained 44 middlemen who were a part of a pan-Indian network human trafficking syndicate that aided Rohingya Muslims enter India via Indo-Bangladesh border and subsequently assisted them in resettling here in various locations. According to them, the agency has filed four cases to look into a bigger network connected to illegal immigration. They also claimed that they expect to ask Bangladeshi authorities for assistance in identifying middlemen and important players over the other side of the border. NIA has registered four cases to unearth the conspiracy. It said its probe has revealed that “different modules of this illegal human trafficking network were spread over various states, including Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Haryana and Jammu & Kashmir and operating from there.” Deccan Herald also posted about this in an incident published on Feb 6, 2024 with the heading “NIA cracks ‘massive’ human trafficking case in Bengaluru involving Bangladeshis, Rohingyas”. The NIA filed charge sheets against 36 accused including 16 Bangladeshi nationals and one Rohingya of Myanmar origin. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has stated in two distinct charge sheets filed in separate courts that an international syndicate trafficked citizens of Bangladesh into Bengaluru and also created fictitious Indian identity certificates to settle Rohingyas in many other regions of the nation. The charge sheets were filed against 36 accused including 16 Bangladeshi nationals and one Rohingya of Myanmar origin. The following people have been named as suspects: Saudi Zakir, Gharami Mohamad Bashir Hosen, Mohammed Oli Ullah, Amol Das, Masud Sarder, Md. Sohag Gazi, Suman Shaik, Sk. Md. Bellal, Md Mirazul Islam, Zakir Khan, Md Badal Houladar, Md. Kabir Talukder, and Zakir Khan. According to the NIA, they had also procured Indian identification documents fraudulently and entered the country unlawfully and without proper travel documentation.
The Hindu posted regarding this on Feb 23, 2024 with the headline “NIA arrests two absconding accused in Bangladeshi human trafficking case”. Two absconding accused from the state have been apprehended by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which in November 2023 cracked a multi-State human trafficking case from Bangladesh with connections to Bengaluru. This brings the case’s total number of arrests to 14. Twelve more people who were detained earlier have already received charge sheets.“NIA had registered the case on November 7, 2023, after receiving credible inputs about certain Karnataka-based persons having linkages with facilitators and traffickers in Assam, Tripura and countries across the border. The linkages had exposed a large network of traffickers engaged in smuggling individuals into India through the Indo-Bangladesh border. The accused were also found involved in fabricating and providing fake Aadhar cards to the victims,” NIA said in a statement. The two now arrested have been identified as Mohammed Sajjid Haldar and Idris. They were arrested from Karnataka on Thursday night with the assistance of the Internal Security Division of Karnataka, NIA said. For further clarification, we also visited Times of India, which posted about it on August 22, 2023 with the headline “Rohingya man with fake Indian passport arrested”. Just after being deported from the Maldives, a Rohingya man was taken into custody at Kempegowda International Airport. The individual had obtained a Maldivian tourist visa and flown to the Maldives using a forged Indian passport. Immigration officials handed him over to police. Sources with KIA said the suspect, who held an Indian passport in the name of Abdul Malik, had flown to the Maldivian capital of Male on August 12 from Kochi after managing to get a tourist visa for the island nation. Times of India posted the video of Special DGP Harmeet Singh with the headline “NIA’s Swift Operation: 47 Arrested In Crackdown On Rohingya Refugee…”. The video was uploaded in Youtube on August 6, 2018.
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ANALYSIS:Distorted
FACT:A video that shows a truck loaded with people has been shared claiming that 2 truckloads of 80 Rohingyas from Bangladesh packed their belongings & reached the village near Baruipur city,West Bengal & getting protection from WB govt as vote bank.(1/3) pic.twitter.com/Zev8BM3G5B
Intent:
Self-proclaimed OSINT accounts are circulating old videos of Rohingya’s infiltration into India as a recent video to influence the upcoming general elections in 2024. A video that shows a truck loaded with people has been shared claiming that 2 truckloads of 80 Rohingyas from Bangladesh packed their belongings & reached the village near Baruipur city,West Bengal & getting protection from WB govt as vote bank. As per previous reports, this is an old video that depicts Rohingyas travelling to Baruipur, West Bengal, in 2018. The Indian government must enact stringent measures in response to the major issue of Rohingya and Bangladeshi infiltration into India.
Conclusion:
Claim : A picture of a truck full of people has gone viral, with the story stating that two truckloads of 80 Rohingyas from Bangladesh packed up their possessions, travelled to a village close to Baruipur, West Bengal, and received protection from the West Bengal government in exchange for votes.
Fact : The fact is that according to earlier reports, this is an old video showing Rohingyas arriving in West Bengal’s Baruipur in 2018. The infiltration of Rohingyas and Bangladeshis into India is a serious issue, and the Indian government needs to take strict measures.
