Navi Mumbai: ATS arrests three Bangladeshi nationals for illegal stay

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The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) officials have raided a residential premises in Navi Mumbai township of Maharashtra and arrested three Bangladeshi nationals for illegally staying in the country, police said on Thursday, reported news agency PTI.

Acting on a tip-off, a team of ATS, Navi Mumbai, raided the premises at Ovegaon in Kharghar area on Wednesday and nabbed the three persons, an official from Kharghar police station told PTI.

When enquired, the three persons could not produce any valid documents for travel to India and staying here, the official said, adding they worked locally to earn their livelihood.

Two of them came to India along with their parents around 30 years ago and were staying here since then, as per the FIR, reported PTI.

The police gave the names of the arrested persons as Kamal Ahmed Khan (36), Alim Yunus Shaikh (40) and Badal Moinuddin Khan (38), reported PTI.

A case was registered against them on Thursday under provisions of the Passport (Entry Into India) Rules, 1950 and the Foreigners Act, 1946, the police added.

Meanwhile, Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested nine Bangladeshi nationals who were staying illegally in the country in separate operations across Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, an official told PTI on Wednesday.

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 inputs from PTI)