Four illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, who had allegedly entered Bengal to smuggle cattle to their country, were arrested from Suti in Murshidabad on Sunday evening.

Karim Sheikh, 25, Mannan Sheikh, 50, Alamin Sheikh, 20, and Joharul Sheikh, 26, were produced at Jangipur ACJM court on Monday and remanded to three days of police custody. “We arrested four illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, who entered India without passports, from Suti. We don’t yet have the necessary evidence to prove if they were involved in cattle smuggling. We have taken them into three days custody for interrogation,” said Y. Raghuvamshi, the SP, Jangipur police district.

An officer of Suti police station said the accused were residents of Shibganj in Chapainawabganj district of Bangladesh. Shibganj and Suti are situated on opposite sides of the Ganga.

“These accused had crossed the river to India to smuggle cattle back home. They took advantage of the high water-level of the Ganga to swim to India,” a police source said.

In the past week, eight Bangladeshi immigrants including these four, have been arrested in Murshidabad.