The tourists were produced before a court and found guilty. (Representational)
Three tourists from Sweden were taken into custody for violating their visa provisions by attending a religious meeting in Dibrugarh district of Assam on Wednesday, the police said.
A case had been filed by the police against the three for attending the meeting at Ghinai in Dibrugarh district while travelling under tourist visas, senior police officer Bitul Chetia said.
The tourists were produced before a court and found guilty under the Foreigners Act. It directed the deputy commissioner and the district police to arrange for their deportation.
The three-day prayer meeting was organised by United Church Forum, a body of different churches, with due permission from the district administration.
The tourists will be sent to Guwahati on Thursday and subsequently deported to Sweden, Mr Chetia said.
Assam Police had last month announced that they would crack down on those violating visa provisions more assiduously because, they said, Bangladeshi clerics were violating tourist visa norms by organising religious meets in remote areas of the state.
A day before that, 17 Bangladeshi nationals were arrested in Assam's Biswanath district, with the police claiming clerics from the neighbouring country were radicalising young men of the state.