India on Thursday brought back 270 of its nationals, including 26 women, from Thailand’s Mae Sot town after they allegedly escaped from cyber scam centres operating across the border in Myanmar’s Myawaddy region.

The operation was coordinated by the embassy of India in Bangkok and the consulate in Chiang Mai in close collaboration with the Thai authorities. Two special Indian Air Force (IAF) flights were deployed to ferry the rescued citizens back home.

According to official sources, the Indian nationals were detained by the Thai authorities for illegally crossing the border from Myanmar, where they were reportedly employed in cyberfraud syndicates. “The repatriation was facilitated in coordination with various agencies of the Royal Thai government,” the Indian embassy said.

Many of the

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