Delhi Police arrest 66 undocumented ‘Bangladeshi immigrants’

The Delhi Police has arrested 66 undocumented Bangladeshi immigrants living in the Wazirpur Jhuggi Jhopdi Colony and New Subzi Mandi areas of the national capital, PTI quoted an officer as saying on Monday.

Among those arrested are 20 men, 16 women and 30 children. They were apprehended on Friday during a special drive to identify undocumented foreign nationals living in informal settlements, reported The Indian Express.

The police said that those arrested had recently relocated to the northwestern parts of Delhi from the Nuh district of Haryana, where they worked in brick kilns.

“These families had relocated to Delhi following intensified enforcement actions against illegal immigrants by the police, as well as widespread media coverage of such operations,” Bhisham Singh, the deputy commissioner of police (northwest), was quoted as saying by The Indian Express.

Singh claimed that the families started living in densely populated and informal localities to avoid detection.

Their arrest is part of an ongoing drive to detect undocumented foreign nationals in Delhi, the officer added.

On December 10, Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena had ordered that a special drive be launched against alleged undocumented immigrants from Bangladesh.

After the order, the police have arrested several persons whom they claim are undocumented Bangladeshi immigrants.

On May 30, the Delhi Police arrested four Bangladeshi nationals who were living in North Delhi’s Narela without valid documents....

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