National Investigation Agency (NIA) DG Jogesh Chandra Modi has informed that Bangladeshi nationals are involved in terrorism in Odisha and Assam.
The Pioneer published a report on January 11 this year regarding the Bangladeshi infiltration residing in the Paradip area and their involvement in crime in slum areas of Paradip and Chanakana, Sandhakud, Bauriapalanda, Musadiha and Udaybata villages.
The Kendrapara police had arrested five Bangladeshi nationals for establishing a Bangaladeshi radio station and making fake Indian currency notes, besides running sex rackets at Gupti and Pitapata villages in May 2012.
Given their track record, it is surprising to find that the Paradip Refinery Project (IOCL) authority has permitted the Bangladeshi nationals to stay permanently inside the plant boundary. Near Udaybata village the boundary wall has been broken. The Paradip Municipality has constructed a bridge for those inhabitants who are living inside the boundary by illegally occupying IOCL land.
More than 30 families are living this way. One inhabitant named Bhanu Amity told The Pioneer that his grandfather came to Paradip from Bangladesh in 1976.
And since then, they have been living at Ghanagalia Salma, which is now inside the port’s prohibited area. His family was shifted to Udayabata village in 2000 by allotment a plot by the PPT.
But he sold the plot to a business man. Later, he built a thached house without PPT permission and stayed up to 2009.
Sources said that unknown persons are coming here and and staying for 1/2 weeks. They are involved in smuggling of narcotics and gambling.
A resident, Bhanu Maity told that some unknown youths are coming from unknown places and staying one or two weeks and going out. They speak in Bengali and Urdu.
The oil refinery is a high security plant. Highly inflammable products are here. But how the plant authorities are giving chance for illegal people to stay inside, many ask here, demanding that they must be indentified by local police and necessary action be taken against them.
