Mumbai: Six allegedly undocumented Bangladeshi immigrants arrested

Six allegedly undocumented Bangladeshi migrants were arrested in Mumbai, ANI quoted the police as saying on Friday.

The six persons have been accused of providing forged Aadhaar and other identity documents to Bangladeshi citizens to help them enter India, ANI reported.

Forty forged Aadhaar cards, Permanent Account Number cards, railway tickets with QR codes and other Indian identity documents were recovered from them, the news agency quoted the Mumbai Police as saying.

Since the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam in April 2025, the police in several states, most of them ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party, have been detaining Bengali-speaking persons – mostly Muslims – and asking them to prove that they are Indian citizens.

Several persons have been forced into Bangladesh after they allegedly could not prove their Indian citizenship. In some cases, persons who were mistakenly sent to Bangladesh returned to the country after state authorities in India proved that they were Indians.

Scroll has also reported on several cases of persons who were forced into Bangladesh being brought back to India, as the authorities had failed to follow the process laid down by the Union home ministry for such deportations.

In May 2025, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs directed the states and Union Territories to verify the credentials of persons suspected to be undocumented migrants from Bangladesh...

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