Overview
- South East District Police apprehended 20 Bangladeshi nationals accused of living in Delhi under false identities.
- The detainees include 12 men, 8 women, and 4 children, and they have been moved to a detention centre.
- Authorities state that deportation proceedings to return the group to Bangladesh will begin soon.
- Police are pursuing agents alleged to have facilitated illegal entry and forged papers, and have intensified checks at railway stations and border transit points after suspects attempted to flee, according to DCP Sachin Sharma.
- In a related action earlier this month, five Bangladeshi nationals were caught at the Mangolpuri railway line with expired documents, while Outer District Police separately reported 548 foreign nationals apprehended in 2025 under FRRO-led deportation orders, most of them from Bangladesh.