Assam FinanceMinister Himanta Biswa Sarma on February 22 alleged that vested interests were helping Rohingya refugees to settle in Assam, reports The Telegraph. According to statistics of Rohingya detected in the state from 2009 to 2019 shared by him, 75 Rohingya have been caught in Assam, of which 25 were caught between 2009 and 2013 and the rest between 2017 and 2019. Forty were caught this year while the protests were on. He also claimed that the first Rohingya refugee was identified in 2009 at Paltan Bazar (Kamrup Metropolitan District) and this gained momentum recently when the state was going through an unsettling phase.