Illegal immigration network busted, 47 Bangladeshi people apprehended

Time of India

03-05-2025

New Delhi: Delhi Police dismantled an
illegal immigration network
, apprehending 47 Bangladeshi nationals and five Indian collaborators in coordinated raids in Delhi, Chennai and Assam. The foreign nationals were brought to the city by agents, provided with
fake identity documents
and were embedded in low-wage sectors. Over 100 Bangladeshi nationals and their associated agents are under investigation for the racket. The arrested Indians had provided them shelter, arranged fake identity documents, and given them employment.
Ravi Kumar Singh, DCP (Southeast), said the operation began on March 12 with the arrest of a Bangladeshi citizen named Aslam, who had illegally entered India a few days before that. Aslam was part of a larger human trafficking racket that facilitated the illegal entry and settlement of Bangladeshi nationals in India. Based on his interrogation, police apprehended five other Bangladeshis, including kingpin Chand Miya, and five Indian facilitators.
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The foreigners, among them Mohammad Ali Hussain, entered India in 2024 and worked as a labourer. Mohammad Mizan came around 2011–12 and obtained an Aadhaar card using a fake address. Fatima Afross, who holds a master's degree in English, came to city illegally in Aug 2024. Radish Mulla arrived three years ago and acquired Aadhaar documents with forged papers.
Miya himself had come to India at the age of four with his father, a garbage picker in Seemapuri. The family later moved to Taimoor Nagar before Chand relocated to Chennai. For over a decade, he trafficked Bangladeshi nationals into India, charging each person around Rs 25,000. He frequently crossed the border via West Bengal and Meghalaya and facilitated Aslam's entry in March 2025.
The investigation identified 41 other Bangladeshis, 33 from Chennai and the rest from other locations. "One of the suspects involved in the racket was also nabbed in Assam," police said.
The cops revealed that the immigrants crossed the border with the help of local traffickers and then travelled by train to Delhi. There local contacts helped them procure Aadhaar and PAN cards, often leveraging their original Bangladeshi IDs. Others then got them employment as labourers, ragpickers and low-wage workers.
The five Indians involved were Mohammad Anis, Ranjan Kumar Yadav, Rahisuddin Ali, Shabbir and Lokman Ali — each having a role in document forgery or logistics.
Anis, a post-graduate from Seetapur, runs a shop in southeast Delhi's Taimoor Nagar since 2012. From his premises, police recovered fake Aadhaar and voter cards, biometric scanners, computer, hard disk and forged documents plus Rs 19,170 in cash. "He used to prepare the forged identity documents," an officer said. Yadav, a post-graduate from Bihar, worked as an Aadhaar operator and was found in possession of a hard disk with records of the foreign nationals for whom he created Aadhaar cards. Ali, who runs a shop in Jasola, had forged caste and birth certificates and had a laptop and a printer. Shabbir from Faridabad assisted in forging Aadhaar cards and had prior criminal involvement. Lokman from Assam transported the immigrants from border points to Guwahati, aiding their dispersal across India.
The recovered items included 11 fake Aadhaar cards, Bangladeshi ID documents, computers, hard disks, biometric scanners, forged birth and caste certificates, nine mobile phones with SIMs and cash.