The District Magistrate promulgated a night curfew under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, to ensure peace and tranquillity by preventing the designs of anti-national elements and activities of organisations inimical to the safety and security of the general public.
“The night curfew will be effective from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. till February 28 in certain border areas under the Karbook Subdivision of Gomati district,” the notification said.
No person shall carry lathis, firearms or any weapons, except police personnel, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and BSF personnel on duty, the notification added. Police and security personnel as well as officials on government duty have been excluded from the restrictions.
“People residing within 300 metres of the international border shall also be excluded from the restrictions,” the District Magistrate’s notification said.
Tripura shares an 856-km-long border with Bangladesh and is surrounded on three sides by the neighbouring country, making it highly vulnerable to smuggling and other cross-border crimes and movements of inimical elements.
Tripura’s Gomati and Dhalai districts share borders with the trouble-torn Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of southeast Bangladesh.Meanwhile, Tripura Police in June last year detained 13 members of the Bangladesh-based organisation PCJSS, including two women.
A official in the the state government added that 13 members were injured in armed clashes with a rival group at Panchari in the CHT of Bangladesh and crossed over to India for medical treatment.