New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a conference of Superintendents of Police (SPs) from border districts in New Delhi on Thursday, where key issues including infiltration, illegal immigration, demographic changes, border security, drone threats and narcotics trafficking are expected to be discussed.The meeting assumes significance amid the Centre’s intensified campaign against illegal immigration, which it has described as part of an organised attempt to alter the …
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Patna, July 8 (IANS) Security agencies have arrested a Bangladeshi national near the India-Nepal border in Bihar’s East Champaran district during a joint operation conducted by the district police and the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).The arrest was made near the Maitri Bridge at Custom Chowk under the Haraiya police station area, where the suspect was allegedly attempting to cross into Nepal.According to the police, security personnel were conducting routine surveillance and document verification a…
Guwahati, July 8 (IANS) Assam Minister and Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) president Atul Bora on Wednesday asserted that no individual should be harassed in the name of language, while maintaining that illegal foreigners would continue to be treated as foreigners under the law.Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the ongoing Budget Session of the Assam Legislative Assembly, Bora sought to clarify the state government’s stand amid the continuing debate over the Assamese language and the issue of i…
Patna, June 26 (IANS) In a significant development along the India-Nepal border, the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) on Friday apprehended two women from Uzbekistan who were allegedly residing illegally in India while attempting to cross into Nepal through the Raxaul border in Bihar’s East Champaran district. The women were detained near the Maitri Bridge at Custom Chowk under the jurisdiction of Haraiya police station during routine border checking operations.According to an official, an SSB team dep…
New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) Security agencies are keeping a close watch on the activities of the Imam Mahmuder Kafila (IMK) which is an offshoot of the Jamaat ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). An Intelligence Bureau official said that the JMB would look to re-activate its offshoot with the specific intention of targeting northeastern India and West Bengal and would seek to recruit those who have been asked to return to Bangladesh. The states that are in focus are Assam and West Bengal.The official s…
Gandhinagar, June 8 (IANS) Gujarat Police have arrested 609 illegal Bangladeshi nationals across the state under the ongoing ‘Operation Delta Hunt’, with authorities intensifying verification and enforcement measures against illegal immigration, officials said on Monday. According to official figures released up to 8 p.m. on June 6, those detained include 161 men, 323 women, and 125 children.The largest number of arrests was recorded in Ahmedabad City, where 207 people were detained, followed by…
Mumbai, June 6 (IANS) In a major operation against illegal immigration, Mumbai Police arrested seven Bangladeshi nationals who were allegedly residing in India without valid documents for nearly 15 years, officials said on Saturday.The action was carried out by the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) Police in Andheri, where officers conducted a targeted operation based on specific Intelligence inputs and detained the seven individuals suspected of illegally entering and stayin…
New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) Reaffirming its stance on illegal immigration, India on Friday said that all foreign nationals residing unlawfully in the country, including from Bangladesh, will be handled according to the established legal procedures, with deportations of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants set to move forward once pending nationality verification is completed by Dhaka. Addressing a weekly media briefing in New Delhi, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said…
Gandhinagar, June 3 (IANS) A combination of telecom analysis, technical surveillance, human intelligence, and a statewide network of checkpoints enabled Gujarat Police to launch ‘Operation Delta Hunt’, an operation that has so far led to the detention of 362 Bangladeshi nationals allegedly residing illegally in India and the questioning of more than 782 other suspected individuals. Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi said the operation was prepared ov…
Ahmedabad, June 3 (IANS) The Ahmedabad Crime Branch has uncovered evidence that several suspected illegal Bangladeshi immigrants detained in a citywide operation had obtained Aadhaar cards through fraudulent means, initiating a wider investigation into document forgery networks and the methods used to facilitate their stay in India.Providing an update on the ongoing crackdown on Wednesday, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Sharad Singhal, said 166 people had so far been confirmed as Banglade…