"Since West Bengal accounts for 1,900km of the nearly 4,000 km-long India-Bangladesh border, it has two major crossing points for the Rohingya and also a thriving network of local agents facilitating their transit. We need to sensitise state police to take action as the Rohingya Muslims are a potential security threat. "Of late, some attempts by Rohingya to move to states like Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, have come to notice. These include three points on the India-Bangladesh border and two on the India-Myanmar border. The BSF has, as part of tighter surveillance on the India-Bangladesh border, pushed back 87 Rohingya.

Source: Times of India December 05, 2017 23:03 UTC