Overview
- On June 6, the North West District Foreigner Cell detained 66 Bangladeshi nationals in informal settlements based on specific intelligence inputs
- The group comprised 11 families with 20 men, 16 women and 30 children living without valid visas in the capital
- Police traced the migrants to Nuh in Haryana where they had been employed in brick kilns before moving to Delhi amid increased enforcement
- To elude detection, the families split into smaller cells and hid mobile phones along with identity documents in densely populated areas
- This operation forms part of a broader nationwide push by multiple agencies to target undocumented migrants, including probes into forged documents and trafficking networks