New DelhiIn advance of the capital city's SIR (Special Identification Registration) procedure, Delhi Police took significant action on Thursday. In this regard, twenty Bangladeshi nationals who were living in the city illegally were captured by Delhi Police. They were found to have some Indian identity documents, according to the police.
FI have Bangladesh.It'scaptured in DelhiIn addition, during the first week of 2026, five citizens of Bangladesh were arrested in Delhi. The district's foreigner cell, according to the police, checked about 100 people during the week after receiving a tip about foreigners in the area who were overstaying their visas. Despite lacking valid Indian travel documents, these individuals were trying to get visas for other nations.
18 Bangladeshis were discovered living in Delhi illegally.Eighteen Bangladeshi nationals were detained by Delhi's North-West district police in June of last year after they were discovered living in the city illegally. The Foreigner Cell unit made the arrests during a special operation in the vicinity of the Bharat Nagar police station.
Three families who had migrated from Haryana were now hiding in the Wazirpur JJ Colony, regularly changing locations to avoid detection, according to specific intelligence inputs that prompted the operation.
To find illegal Bangladeshis, 36 walkways were examined.Over 36 walkways and 45 alleyways were thoroughly searched during the operation, according to Bhisham Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) North-West Delhi. After being detained for a while, one of the suspects confessed to being a citizen of Bangladesh.
He disclosed that he and others had been employed as laborers at Haryana brick kiln businesses. They fled to Delhi and settled in the JJ clusters of Wazirpur and the surrounding areas after Haryana Police intervened.
Police arrested 17 more people based on his statements. It was discovered that a total of eighteen Bangladeshi nationals—six adults and twelve children—were living illegally without the necessary paperwork, visas, or permits, in violation of the Foreigners Act of 1946 and other immigration laws.
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