Silchar, July 7 -- A 42-year-old Bangladeshi national has been arrested in Assam's Hailakandi district on charges that he illegally entered the country to meet his wife and daughter, police said on Tuesday.

Police said the man, identified by the police as Sahed Ahmed from Bangladesh's Sylhet district, had married an Indian national whom he had met in Meghalaya eight years ago. His wife and their daughter had been living in Hailakandi for the last two and a half years.

"He entered India illegally and was detained on July 5. We are investigating the route he used, the purpose of his visit and whether anyone assisted him in crossing the border," senior superintendent of police (SSP), Hailakandi, Amitabh Sinha said.

Preliminary investigati...