04 October,2023 12:26 PM IST | Thane | mid-day online correspondent
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Maharashtra crime: The Navi Mumbai Police have arrested a Bangladeshi couple and their son for illegally staying in Navi Mumbai township of Maharashtra, an official said on Wednesday, reported the PTI.
According to the PTI, a team of the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) during a raid on Monday night spotted the three persons at a chawl in Nerul area and apprehended them, the official from Nerul police station said.
The 43-year-old man, his 40-year-old wife and their son aged 25 did not allegedly possess any document for staying in India, the official told the news agency.
The Nerul police have registered offences against the three persons under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code, the Passport (Entry into India) Rules and the Foreigners Act, the police added.
Meanwhile, the Navi Mumbai police had in August arrested eight Bangladeshi nationals, three of them women, for allegedly staying in the country illegally without valid documents, an official had earlier said, the PTI had reported.
Based on a tip-off, officials of the police's anti-human trafficking cell (AHTC) raided a residential locality in Ulve and had nabbed the Bangladeshi nationals, the official told the PTI.
The eight accused, including three women, had been living in the locality since the last eight months and did not possess any valid documents, he said.
An offence under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, Passport (Entry into India) Rules 1950 and The Foreigners Act of 1946 has been registered against them, the official from Navi Mumbai police said.
Earlier, on August 3, Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) had said that they had arrested nine Bangladeshi nationals who were staying illegally in the country in separate operations across Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, an official told news agency PTI.
Among them, two Bangladeshi nationals were wanted in connection with a rape case registered at Navi Mumbai's Nerul police station in 2022, he said.
The operations at multiple locations and spread over a week were part of a drive against Bangladeshi nationals staying in the country without valid documents, the official told PTI.
On July 26, a raid was conducted at Nerul village in Navi Mumbai where ATS officials nabbed a Bangladeshi woman. She was wanted in a case registered by the Mumbai Crime Branch in 2009, he said.
Besides her, two men, wanted in the rape case, were also apprehended from the satellite city, the official told PTI.
The next day, ATS sleuths conducted a raid at Byculla in the metropolis and arrested four Bangladeshi nationals wanted in a case registered under the Passport Act, he said.
In another raid, two citizens of the neighbouring country were apprehended from central Mumbai, the official told PTI.
(with PTI inputs)
