India, July 23 -- The Government Railway Police (GRP) on Tuesday detained eight Bangladeshi nationals at Assam's New Bongaigaon Railway Station for allegedly entering India illegally and attempting to travel to Chennai for work, police officials said.

The detainees-identified as Babu Sheikh, Ashraful Haque, Alamin Ali, Mamun Sheikh, Mohammad Ali, Rahul Amin, Musharraf Ali, and Asharul Haque-are all residents of Jamalpur district in central Bangladesh and aged between 19 and 22, according to police..

During initial interrogation, the men admitted they had crossed into India illegally through the porous India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya, allegedly by walking through hilly terrain and a broken fencing area. They claimed to have paid Rs....