Over 1000 Bangladeshi nationals detained in Gujarat
Minister Sanghavi calls it ‘historic victory’
The detainees were first held at Kankaria Football Ground and then paraded to the Gaikwad Haveli HQ of the Crime Branch through the roads of the city.
Gujarat Police Action against Illegal Immigrants:
The Gujarat Police, in an operation that began at 3 am on Saturday, detained 1,024 Bangladesh nationals allegedly living illegally in two major cities of Ahmedabad and Surat.
While 890 people were detained in Ahmedabad, 134 were detained in Surat, the police said.
Gujarat Minister of State for Home, Harsh Sanghavi, called this midnight action “a historic victory” for the state police.
The same language was used by police officials to describe their operation, calling it a “historic surgical strike on illegal immigrants and illegal encroachments”.
Notably, while this detention action comes in the wake of the terrorist attack in Pahalgam of Kashmir for which the Government of India has roundly blamed Pakistan, all the persons detained in Gujarat on Saturday are alleged to be Bangladesh nationals.
During this operation, more than 400 suspicious immigrants have been detained.” However, this number rose to 890 by noon. Most of the people were picked up from Chandola lake area of Ahmedabad City.
The detainees were first held at Kankaria Football Ground and then paraded and the drone videos of the long march were also circulated by the police.
Ahmedabad police detained 890 illegal Bangladeshis, and Surat police have detained 134 of them.
This is the biggest operation of the Gujarat Police of this kind against foreign or Bangladeshi nationals.
"These Bangladeshis come through (West) Bengal illegally by making fake documents and reach Gujarat and other states of India. Many of them are such who are involved in drug cartels, human trafficking....We have also seen earlier how two Bangladeshis were caught while working as sleeper cell for Al Qaida," the Minister said.
Sanghavi warned all other illegal immigrants to surrender themselves to local police stations.
He said, “The investigation of the background and activities of all these Bangladeshis is underway and I want to give them a clear message.
Either go to the police station yourself and surrender as an illegal Bangladeshi within two days, otherwise the Gujarat police will take “na bhut na bhavishya” (neither the past nor the future) type of strong action.
The same instructions have been passed on in all corners of Gujarat.”
In Ahmedabad, DGP Sahay reiterated that central agencies had been asked for cooperation in investigating the legal status of the Bangladesh nationals detained on Saturday.
Sahay said that the detention of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh would take place on a statewide scale and instructions for the same had been passed on to police chiefs in all districts on Saturday morning.
In a warning to those allegedly giving help to the Bangladeshi nationals for their illegal stay, Sanghavi said, “If a single infiltrator is given shelter, then their condition will also be made bad. All types of legal steps will be taken on those sheltering them”.
He also said the police would investigate those making fake documents for illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
“It is the responsibility of the state, in the national interest, to implement it. Under this responsibility, the Gujarat government will finish the work in the timeline given by the Government of India.”
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