India, April 3 -- North Sentinel Island, home to the indigenous Sentinelese people and a part of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago on the Bay of Bengal, has hit the headlines with the arrest of an US citizen, who tried to "illegally enter" the highly restricted region.

The man, identified as 24-year-old Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, was taken into custody by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) on Monday, March 31.

Without any authorisation, Polyakov ventured to the North Sentinel from the Khurmadera beach of the archipelago, police officials said.

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