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The drive against Bangladeshis and Rohingiyas living illegally in India has gained momentum as five more migrants in Dehradun were detained during the past 24 hours.
Uttarakhand and several other states have begun the process of identifying people from Bangladesh and other nations living illegally as part of the exercise to deport them under the new central government’s guidelines, top police officials said on Wednesday.
Five Bangaldeshis including four women who were detained in Dehradun were living on forged documents, police said. “In a joint operation by Dehradun Police and Special Task Force (STF), five Bangladeshi nationals who had entered the country illegally and were living in Dehradun have been detained since Tuesday,” a top police official said.
Police said that during the interrogation, sufficient evidence was found that all five were Bangladeshi nationals. These Bangladeshis were working as labourers in Dehradun for a long time.
Under the new guidelines issued by the Government of India, these Bangladeshis will be deported, the police said.
A verification campaign is continuously being conducted to identify infiltrators in Uttarakhand. On Saturday also, the police had caught six Bangladeshi infiltrators living illegally in Dehradun and Haridwar.
Elsewhere in other states, the police has started verification drive in Odisha and Maharashtra.