In Seemapuri area of Shahdara district, a joint team of delhi Police's Foreigners Cell and Special Staff has arrested 16 Bangladeshi nationals living illegally in India. The arrested Bangladeshi nationals include 4 men, 5 women and 7 children. All of them had entered the indian border illegally.

Quick action on secret information

DCP prashant Gautam said that the Foreigners Cell had received a secret information, which said that a group of Bangladeshi nationals were trying to enter Seemapuri via Shaheed nagar located near the Uttar Pradesh-Delhi border. When the veracity of this information was found to be correct, a joint team of Special Staff and Foreigners Cell was formed under the supervision of ACP Operation Gurudev Singh and under the leadership of Inspector Munish, in-charge of Foreigners Cell. Which included SI Shaji John, ASI Gajendra, Johar, Nazir, Head Constable Arun, Siddharth, Yogendra, Female Head Constable Geeta, Manju etc. The team reached the spot and identified the suspects and caught them. During interrogation, it was found that all the accused had entered the indian border through illegal means and were trying to settle in Delhi.

Infiltrated india 18-19 years ago

During interrogation, it was also revealed that many of the arrested Bangladeshi citizens had entered india from bangladesh 18-19 years ago. They told that due to financial crisis and lack of employment, they had crossed the border in the dark of night and came to India. During that time, they did not encounter any Border Security Force officials. After crossing the border, these people first stayed in Cooch Behar area of West Bengal, and then reached delhi by train. After some time, they went to the rural areas of Haryana, where they started working as laborers in brick kilns. Due to these brick kilns being located in remote villages, they were living there for a long time without being noticed by anyone.

Living there for years without any investigation

The Bangladeshi citizens said that, in all these years, no government agency did any background check on them. At the same time, the owners of the brick kilns hired them without documents to get cheap labour. Gradually, these people settled there and started living there.