13 Bangladeshis held in Vadodara for illegal stay
Vadodara: Over 13 Bangladeshis were detained by the
Vadodara city police
and the govt railway police (GRP) in the last 24 hours. While eight of them were nabbed from different areas of the city, five others, including two children, were held while travelling in the 3AC coach of the Ahmedabad-Howrah Express.
"All the eight Bangladeshis staying illegally in different areas of the city were confined, and their deportation process will begin soon. We are conducting an intensive drive to track down the Bangladeshis staying illegally in the city," said Narasimha Komar, City Police Commissioner.
Hundreds of people from Ektanagar and some other areas were taken to the police stations to verify their credentials and citizenship on Sunday. "We detained 41 more people whose credentials are being verified. A team of city police was sent to the north-eastern states to verify the identities of those caught in the city," Komar told TOI.
The police said that some of the Bangladeshis were working as electricians, while the women are suspected to be victims of human trafficking. The number of detainees is expected to go up in the next few days.
Saroj Kumari, superintendent of police, Western Railway, Vadodara division, said that they were conducting checks in all the trains when they spotted some passengers in a suspicious condition in the coach of Ahmedabad-Howrah Express that stopped at the Vadodara railway station. The cops questioned them and asked for their identity cards.
They revealed that they are Bangladesh residents who were staying illegally in India. Four of them are from the same family, and they were staying in the Isanpur area of Ahmedabad, while the fifth one used to stay in Surat.
Those staying in Ahmedabad have been identified as Ohidul Sheikh, his wife Parveen Sheikh, and their two minor children. The couple used to do rag-picking for a living. The fifth one has been identified as Sher Ali Lutpar, who used to beg for a living in Surat.
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