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Hence they would be in judicial custody till February 13. Since then, they had been in judicial custody. AGARTALA: 38 Rohingya Muslims, mostly children, who had been detained from different parts of Tripura by the security forces, were sent to judicial custody and juvenile homes on Monday, police said.A police official said a local court in Agartala sent 31 Rohingya Muslims, including seven women and 17 children, to judicial custody.“The court offered bail to the adult foreigners, but they could not submit the bail bond. Though the children were detained, the touts reportedly managed to escape.With this, 68 Rohingya Muslims, mostly children, have been apprehended in Tripura and along the Assam-Tripura border in the last two weeks.Tripura has a 856 km-long international border with Bangladesh , most of which is fenced, except a stretch of nearly 20 km. The 17 children will stay along with their mothers in the central jail,” the official said.According to the official, the Border Security Force (BSF) had on January 22 handed over the 31 Rohingya Muslims, who were stranded along the India-Bangladesh border since January 18, to the Tripura Police..