Vigil against Rohingyans stepped up

Thiruvananthapuram: The city police has stepped up vigil against Rohingyans as large number of Rohingyans from a refugee camp in Hyderabad have been reported missing.

Meanwhile, the five-member family of Rohingyans, including a baby, held from Vizhinjam on Tuesday, will be handed over by the state police to the officials at the refugee camp at Hyderabad.

 They would be taken by train by Thursday or Friday, subject to availability of tickets, police sources said here

According to police sources, on quizzing the Rohingyans held at Vizhinjam it could be learnt that many Rohingyans had left the Hyderabad camp.

Hence the police has  stepped up checking at railway stations and bus stands. "Roughly around 5,000 Rohingyans from the Hyderabad refugee camp were reported missing over these years," said a police official.

The Railways had recently sounded an alert that Rohingyan refugees in large numbers were moving to Kerala.

City police commissioner P.Prakash said that the Rohingyans were kept under surveillance as per the instruction of the Foreigners Regional Registration Office here.

They were being sent back to Hyderabad as per their instruction. "They seemed to have come down looking for better jobs and we have no information of them indulging in any suspicious activities," he said.

Immigration sources said that as per norms the Rohingyans registered in a refugee camp were not supposed to leave the limits of the respective camp without proper permissions. Hence the five member family was being sent back to Hyderabd camp.