"Most infiltrators have Govt documents of West Bengal": Gujarat Minister Harsh Sanghavi

The Home Minister further stated that from the last two days, the state administration has nabbed most of the Bangladeshi infiltrators from the 'Howrah Express' train that originates West Bengal.

"The government documents that most of them (infiltrators) have, are mainly from the different districts of West Bengal. We are in contact with the West Bengal police, and we are reaching out to the respective district administration, and our teams are also there. For two days, Bangladeshi infiltrators were nabbed from the Howrah Express that comes from West Bengal. We also caught those who were trying to return to West Bengal," Sanghavi told reporters.

Sanghavi said that the administration has recovered Bangladeshi ID cards from those detained.

He said, "We have also recovered Bangladeshi ID cards from them. They also have accepted that they are residents of Bangladesh. Some of them conveyed the way they chose to infiltrate, some of them went to other states first, then came to Gujarat, some of them have directly came to Gujarat from Bengal..."

Urging all the state governments to work on the issue of infiltrations, Sanghavi asserted, "It is responsibility of the state governments to obey the decisions taken in the national interest. The Modi government has always taken concrete steps on the issue of infiltrators. All the state governments should work on this seriously."

On April 26, the Surat Police detained several individuals suspected to be Bangladesh nationals and initiated a process of document verification, an official said.

The authorities are verifying their documents, following which they plan to deport them.

Surat Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Raghavendra Vats, said, "The people caught last night are Bangladeshis. We will check their documents. After this, we plan to send them to Bangladesh."

In Surat, an overnight combing operation carried out jointly by SOG, DCB, AHTU, PCB, and local police resulted in the detention of more than 100 Bangladeshi nationals. "They had entered India illegally and were living in Surat with forged documents. After the investigation, they will be deported to Bangladesh," said Rajdeep Singh Nakum, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Special Operations Group.

A simultaneous operation was carried out in Ahmedabad around 3 am on Saturday. Teams from the Crime Branch, SOG, Economic Offences Wing (EOW), Zone 6, and Headquarters detained over 450 individuals suspected to be illegal immigrants. DCP Crime Branch Ajit Rajian confirmed that more than 400 people were taken into custody during the early morning sweep.

Joint Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, Ahmedabad, Sharad Singhal, stated that these actions were taken in compliance with orders from the Home Minister, the Commissioner of Police, and the Director General of Police.

"HM, CP and DGP had directed us that illegal immigrants must be held. The Crime Branch has registered two FIRS from April 2024 to date. 127 illegal Bangladeshis were caught and 77 were deported," he said. (ANI)