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- A Tripura court on Monday sentenced a 65-year-old Pakistani woman, Louis Nighat Arther Bano, to two years of simple imprisonment and a ₹10,000 fine for entering India illegally without valid documents after escaping a jail in Nepal.
- She was detained by government railway police at Sabroom railway station in South Tripura on October 11, 2025, initially gave a fake identity but later admitted to being a Pakistani national.
- In a separate case, 29-year-old Bangladeshi national Ratan Baishnab was sentenced to one month of simple imprisonment for entering Tripura illegally through the Sylhet-Kaliganj border; he had been working as a daily labourer in Tripura.
- The convictions relate to cases registered under the Foreigner Act, the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita, and the Immigration and Foreigners Act, with chargesheets filed in December and January.
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- Whether the Pakistani woman pays the ₹10,000 fine or serves an additional month in jail, and what follows after her two-year sentence ends
- Any further details on how she escaped the Nepal jail and her movement into India
- Similar illegal-entry cases and prosecutions along the Tripura border
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