Chinese Citizens Who Tried To Enter India Illegally Via Nepal Arrested

The Indian authorities have arrested two Chinese nationals for trying to enter the country illegally through Nepal. This is the second such incident to be reported in less than a month.

The Chinese citizens were arrested in Bihar on Saturday by immigration officials. They were caught on Saturday night at the Raxaul border outpost falling in East Champaran district, Assistant Foreigner Regional Registration Officer SK Singh said, according to a report in PTI.

The two people claimed that their names are Zhao Jing and Fu Cong and hail from Jaoxing province of China. They were found without valid travel documents and claimed to have left their passports at a hotel in Birganj, right across the border, where they had stayed the previous night.They had reached the border by an autorickshaw and tried to cross over on foot, Singh said.

The immigration department official added that as per records the Chinese nationals had made an earlier attempt to sneak into Indian territory on July 2 when they claimed to have done so inadvertently.

They had been let off and their passports were returned with ''entry refused'' stamped on these, said the official. However, he added, "Their repeated attempts to enter the area raises suspicions. Hence they have been handed over to the local police for further investigation and action".

"Motive behind their move could not be established. Interrogation is being done," Hindustan Times quoted East Champaran superintendent of police (SP) Kantesh Kumar Mishra as saying.

"In the course of the interrogation, they demonstrated strange behaviour. While one of them is fluent in English, the statement given by them are inconsistent and self-contradictory," said an immigration official on condition of anonymity.