The infiltrators revealed that they were supposed to travel to Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and had entered India with the help of middlemen.
The group had entered India illegally from Bangladesh and was attempting to reach major Indian cities such as Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, and Chennai.
Police also seized mobile phones and other incriminating documents from the arrested touts.
The arrested Indian touts are-- Niyamat Hossain (31) and Pintu Miah (27), both from a slum area in West Tripura district, and Prasenjit Sarkar from Silchar, Assam.
They had entered India through the Madhoppur (BD)-Agartala route and were en route to Bengaluru
Currently, there is a night curfew imposed along the Meghalaya-Bangladesh border in view of Bangladesh's ongoing turmoil
Dev further alleged that despite initiating an investigation, the concerned police officials attempted to "hush up" the issue
A case has been registered at the Agartala Government Railway Police (GRP) police station, and the detainees will be presented before the court today.
Despite more than 96 percent of the India-Bangladesh border along Tripura being fenced with barbed wire, the influx continues
A case has been registered against them under the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Foreigner's Act, and the Passport Act.