Siliguri: Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) jawans arrested Sergei Demin (45), a Russian national, while trying to cross the border near Siliguri in West Bengal from Birtamode in Nepal without a valid visa. The accused was trying to enter India dressed as a Tibetan monk when SSB officials became suspicious and detained him.
On questioning, Sergei informed the officials that he is a resident of Krasnodar city in Russia, and had been living in India and Nepal for the past five years without any visa, as he had relinquished materialistic life and had become a Buddhist monk.
He claimed that he had first entered India in 2011, and his visa had expired in 2014, after which he had stayed put in the region. This time, he claimed that was headed to Kolkata, as he was taking Sanskrit lessons there.
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