Imphal, August 25: Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) of Chandel district has today remanded all the fifteen illegal migrant workers of Myanmarese origin arrested from the border town of Moreh recently to judicial custody for fifteen days.

Official sources said the police might submit charge sheet against the illegal migrant workers, all Muslims, before the court very soon.

During the five-day police investigation nothing could be established on the possibility of having links with any international terror organization or Al Queda.

Assam Rifles personnel stationed at Moreh apprehended them from the border town on last Friday morning.

Subsequently, Moreh police registered a regular FIR against them under section 13 of the Foreigners Act for entering the country without valid papers including passports and visas.

On August 21, the CJM remanded the accused hailing from Arakan province till today.

For security reasons they were kept and interrogated at Imphal and not at the border town as a battery of underground organizations are hiding along the long porous borderlines.

Authorities of Assam Rifles said that though one of arrested illegal migrant workers possessed documents from Thailand no links with any terrorist organization could be established and that they were apprehended for not possessing necessary documents while entering the country.

To reach Moreh town they have reportedly crossed over from Arakan to Bangladesh via Tripura, Silchar and Imphal.

One of illegal migrant workers reportedly revealed that they are manual workers and that they had landed at Moreh recently in search of work.

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