MUMBAI: The Special Branch of the city police arrested 21 Bangladeshi illegal immigrants, including nine women, who were employed in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai as labourers, police said.
The police conducted raids at Rey Road, Mankhurd and Navi Mumbai's Kalamboli areas and caught the illegal immigrants. "We have been working to trace the illegal immigrants. The accused have been arrested," said a police source.
Last year, the total number arrests of Bangladeshi illegal immigrants went up to 1400. On December 1, raids were conducted in different parts of the city when 57 Bangladeshi illegal immigrants were apprehended, police said adding that during their interrogation, they revealed that many more from their country lived in neighbouring Thane district without valid documents.
Accordingly, raids were conducted in the next five days, when 195 illegal immigrants were nabbed from Thane district's Mira road, Naigaon, Bhayinder, Nalasopara and Kharghar areas, said deputy commissioner of police (Special Branch) Sanjay Shintre. Among the arrested, 56 were females and 64 were children, police said adding that all the accused either work as labourers. Police said that once formalities in a particular case are completed, the batch is taken to Kolkata. From there, BSF escorts them to the Bangladesh border, police added.
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