The Ansars, the police and the Muslim mobs refused to allow them to flee to Agartala or Kolkata.
The case is officially called State vs. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and others, but is popularly known by Agartala ShoĊojontro Mamla (Agartala conspiracy case) as the main conspiracy was purported to have taken place in the Indian city of Agartala in Tripura state, where Sheikh Mujib's associates met Intelligence Bureau officials.
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Two of the accused, navy steward Mujibur Rahman and the educationist Mohammad Ali Reza went to Agartala, Tripura, a city in Eastern India to seek Indian support for an independent Bangladesh.
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Borok People's Human Rights Organisation is a Borok Human Rights NGO in Tripura, India with an office in Agartala.
DD North-East is a state owned TV channel telecasting from Doordarshan Kendra in Guwahati, Agartala, Kohima, Imphal, Silchar, Dibrugarh, Tura, Aizawl, Itanagar and Shillong.
The Haora River flows through the Indian city of Agartala, it is the major river which flows in the Sadar subdivision of the Western District of Tripura.
Famous guerrilla fighter Shafi Imam Rumi took training for the war in Melaghar, Agartala under Sector-2, supervised by Khaled Mosharraf and Rashid Haider.
Dr. Wazed Miah married Sheikh Hasina, elder daughter of the father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on November 17, 1967, when Sheikh Mujib was in jail awaiting the trial of Agartala Case brought against him for "conspiring to secede from Pakistan".
NIT Agartala has also bagged awards from 1st World Education Congress in the category of engineering colleges and also ranked in National B-School Award by ABP News back to back in 2012 and in 2013.
The Swatantra Tripura Committee organized a conference in Agartala on November 6, 1955, in which representatives from Halam, Kuki, Tripuri, Bengali Hindu and Muslim communities took part.