Agartala: A woman, suspected to be a Pakistani national, was arrested by the Government Railway Police (GRP) at the Sabroom railway station in south Tripura on Saturday.

The 50-year-old woman told her interrogators that she is a resident of the Sheikhpura district in Pakistan and was trying to cross over the international border to Bangladesh. Her statements are being verified by security and intelligence agencies, officials told news agency IANS.

The woman was arrested after getting off the Kanchanjunga Express from Sealdah in Kolkata, West Bengal. GRP officials said on Sunday that she was behaving in a suspicious manner and could not produce any valid identification documents once challenged.

“The arrested woman speaks in Hindi and initially claimed that she stays in Purani Basti in D

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