The foreign nationals were booked under 'TheForeigners Act, 1946' and sent to a district jail in Champhainear Myanmar border after completing 14 days of quarantineprotocol, Inspector General of Prisons Maria C T Zuali said onFriday.
"The foreign nationals, mostly traders, entered thestate without valid documents after imposition of partiallockdown by the Mizoram government and thereafter nationwidelockdown," Zuali told .
On March 22, Mizoram had declared a statewide partiallockdown and a nationwide lockdown was announced from March25.
More than 50 foreign nationals are currently in jailor detained in Mizoram, she said.
At present, over 30 Rohingya women are detained atVairengte on the Mizoram-Assam border, she said.
The women suspected to be victims of human traffickingwere detained by the state police for entering the statewithout travel documents last year.
Efforts are on to send them to a correctional facilityin Saitual before their deportation, she said.
Six Arakan Army militants and a Chinese national arealso incarcerated in Lawngtlai district jail and Central jailin Aizawl respectively.
The officer said that the state government hasreleased about 327 prisoners, including 48 convicts,from various jails in view of the coronavirus outbreak.
The 48 convicts, who were nearing completion of theirimprisonment term were granted remission and 279 others, whowere undertrial prisoners, were released on bail after signingbonds, she said.
The move was taken in accordance with a Supreme Courtorder to decongest jails in the wake of the outbreak of novelcoronavirus, she said.
Though the state government had decided to releaseanother 25 people on account of sickness and old age, theofficer said that the process has been delayed due to theseverity of the crime committed by them.
She also said that at least 129 people have beenarrested on charges of different crimes and sent to jailsafter the imposition of lockdown. CORMM MM