Delhi Police deport eight members of Bangladeshi family living illegally

The Delhi Police deported eight Bangladeshi nationals mdash a man his wife and their six children mdash who had been residing illegally in the Rangpuri area of the national capital an official said on SundayAccording to news agency PTIthe family from Kekerhat village in Madaripur district of Bangladesh had been living in Delhi under false identities after entering India through unofficial routes The police said the man Jahangir admitted to destroying their Bangladeshi identification documents to conceal their originsA team from Vasant Kunj South Police Station was assigned to identify illegal immigrants As part of our intensified efforts to tackle unauthorised migrants the police conducted doortodoor verifications of 400 families in Rangpuri said Deputy Commissioner of Police Southwest Surendra ChoudharyAs part of the verification drive forms were sent to addresses of suspected individuals in West Bengal and a special team was dispatched to manually verify their documents PTI reported During the process Jahangir and his family were identified and admitted their Bangladeshi origin during questioningThe deportation was carried out in coordination with the Foreigners Regional Registration Office FRRO the DCP addedIn a separate case on Friday the Delhi Police deported another Bangladeshi migrant a 28yearold woman who had been residing unlawfully in Delhi and Mumbai for six years PTI reported The police said she had violated the Foreigners ActThe Delhi Police has started an operation to identify and deport illegal Bangladeshi immigrants residing in the national capital following a directive from the Lieutenant Governor LG Secretariat this month to launch a crackdownThe police teams are now visiting slums and the Kalindi Kunj Shaheen Bagh Hazrat Nizamuddin and Jamia Nagar areas to check voter IDs and Aadhaar cards to identify suspected Bangladeshi nationalsThe LG Secretariat has instructed the Delhi Chief Secretary and Police Commissioner to implement a twomonth special drive to identify and take strict action against illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in the cityFake passport racket Kingpin held from North 24 Parganas district in West BengalPolice have arrested the kingpin of a fake passport racket from the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal an officer informed on SundayFollowing leads from those previously arrested in connection with the case the Kolkata Police apprehended Manoj Gupta late on Saturday night at a house in Chadapara Station Road under the jurisdiction of Gaighata police stationGupta a resident of the Silpara area in Behala was running a travel agency in Sakherbazar which according to the police was a front for the illegal passport racketThis man has been the mastermind behind the fake passport racket He was using his travel agency to operate the scheme and it is believed that he was also involved in issuing visas the police officer told PTIEarlier this month Kolkata Police arrested a contractual employee of the postal department from the Parnasree area of Behala Prior to that two individuals were arrested from the North and South 24 Parganas districts of West BengalDuring these raids the police seized a range of fake documents including hard disk drives a computer and a laptop all of which were used to produce counterfeit passports Additional fake documents were recovered from a raid at a house in the Haridevpur area of southern KolkataWith PTI inputs