Overview
- District magistrate Avinash Singh and SSP Anurag Arya led on‑ground inspections on Saturday along University Road, where teams questioned residents in shanties and checked identity documents.
- Homeowners were told to run background checks on tenants and domestic workers, and authorities were directed to verify foreign students in university hostels and madrasas.
- Police instructed cross‑checking of documents for people claiming origins in West Bengal or Bihar and intensified scrutiny of shanty dwellers, construction and brick‑kiln laborers, railway‑area residents, and hotel or dharamshala employees.
- Civic officials were ordered to compile a detailed list of suspected Rohingya and Bangladeshi nationals, while city officers were tasked with locating a site for a detention centre in Bareilly.
- In a separate district drive, Varanasi Police launched a seven‑day verification campaign from Saturday to check hutment clusters and roadside vendors lacking valid documents, with legal action to follow verification.