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Time of India
an hour ago
- Time of India
Made-up identities: How Bangladeshi immigrants used disguises, fake documents to evade detection
New Delhi: Over 2,100 Bangladeshi nationals living in the capital were deported in 2024-25, mostly this year, with the highest number, 370, deported from Outer Delhi district. It was followed closely by North West Delhi, from where 226 Bangladeshi nationals were sent back, according to data released by Delhi Police on Tuesday. Police discovered that Bangladeshi immigrants were using various tactics to evade detection in India, including disguising themselves as transgender individuals and living on the streets, with some even undergoing gender-affirming surgery to alter their physical appearance. The cops cited the examples of Mohammad Raisul Islam, 27, and Mohammad Ebrahim Howlader, 26, two transgender individuals. They were apprehended on July 23 from beneath the Bhalswa Dairy flyover in North West Delhi. Both individuals admitted to their original nationality as Bangladeshi. The two claimed to have undergone gender-affirming surgery to alter their physical appearance to resemble women. "They used heavy makeup, wore sarees or salwar suits, used artificial hair (wigs) and adorned themselves with feminine accessories," an officer revealed. "Some others modified their voice and body language to closely mimic female mannerisms in an attempt to conceal their true identity. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Why Seniors Are Snapping Up This TV Box, We Explain! Techno Mag Learn More Undo These two individuals were involved in begging during the daytime. " You Can Also Check: Delhi AQI | Weather in Delhi | Bank Holidays in Delhi | Public Holidays in Delhi On June 28, five other Bangladeshi nationals engaged in begging were found presenting themselves as transgender women in North West Delhi. Police said during questioning, they admitted to adopting these disguises and even undergoing minor surgeries and hormonal treatments to alter their sex and appearance in an attempt to evade detection. The inquiry revealed that these calculated efforts appeared to be aimed at blending into densely populated areas and leveraging social sensitivities towards women and transgender persons, thereby complicating routine identification and verification by enforcement agencies. Many of the illegal immigrants were found working in brick kilns in remote areas using fake Aadhaar cards, often procured with the help of traffickers, to find jobs. Some immigrants were also found to have purchased properties in West Bengal using fake IDs to establish local residency. On June 4, 18 Bangladeshi nationals were nabbed in North West Delhi's Bharat Nagar. These families began by working as labourers in brick-making factories in Haryana before shifting to slum clusters in the city. To manage the illegal immigrants, temporary detention centres have been set up in community halls, while two permanent facilities operate in Lampur (Outer Delhi) and Sarai Rohilla (North West Delhi). These centres provide basic amenities such as food, water, and shelter, and can accommodate 50 to 60 individuals. Some of the temporary centres are located in Roop Nagar (North Delhi), Samaypur Badli (Outer Delhi) and Vijay Vihar (Northwest Delhi). Additional centres are situated in Bhadola village (North West Delhi) and Seelampur (Shahdara). A police officer said the creation of temporary detention centres depended on the number of illegal immigrants detained at any given time. The authorities identify suitable locations that can be quickly converted into shelters to hold illegal immigrants. Police said multiple teams work on tracing and verifying the migrants. "One team detains the individuals, while another visits the states they claim as their residence to verify if they actually live there," an officer revealed. "After verification, if they are found to be illegal immigrants, they are handed over to the Foreigners' Regional Registration Office, which places them in detention centres." On deportation, they are sent by train to certain place from where they are escorted across the border by security forces. Sometimes, they are also sent via flights. According to police, local traffickers from Bangladesh, with the help of Indian contacts, send immigrants to India. The migrants often travel by train to Delhi, where local contacts assist them in obtaining Aadhaar and PAN cards — often by using their original Bangladeshi IDs. Others help them find employment as labourers, ragpickers and low-wage workers.
Time of India
2 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Plot twist: Conned by a minor, 3 fanboys set out to meet Salman Khan; rescued in Nasik
New Delhi: What began as an online gaming friendship and a starry-eyed fantasy to meet Bollywood actor Salman Khan turned into a 1,200-km interstate rescue mission for Delhi Police. Three schoolboys, aged between 9 and 13, who went missing from north Delhi's Sadar Bazar, were safely traced and rescued from Nasik Railway Station in Maharashtra. The boys, classmates at a school in Sadar Bazar, had been playing the online multiplayer game, Free Fire, for over a year when they befriended a boy named Wahid from Jalna, Maharashtra. During a casual chat, Wahid claimed to have met actor Salman Khan — a remark that sparked the boys' plan to travel to Mumbai to meet the superstar, all without informing their families. On July 25, the families — residents of Kasab Pura and Motia Khan — approached the Sadar Bazar police station after realising the children were missing. One of the boys had left a handwritten note stating they were going to meet Wahid. A kidnapping case was registered under Section 137 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), and two police teams were assigned to the case. You Can Also Check: Delhi AQI | Weather in Delhi | Bank Holidays in Delhi | Public Holidays in Delhi "With the help of CCTV footage and technical surveillance, we traced the boys' movements from Ajmeri Gate to New Delhi Railway Station, where they boarded the Sachkhand Express," said DCP (north) Raja Banthia. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Senior Living Homes in New Market May Surprise You Senior Living | Search Ads Undo Coordination was immediately initiated with Jalna Police and the Railway Protection Force. A search at Wahid's residence in Jalna yielded no leads. Meanwhile, police tracked intermittent signals from one of the boys' mobile phones, eventually locating them near Nasik Railway Station. "Officers boarded a parallel train to Nasik, and after an exhaustive ground search, the children were found loitering near the station platforms," Banthia said. "They revealed that Wahid had contacted them en route and warned them that police were searching for them, advising them not to come to Jalna. The boys then decided to continue on, hoping to eventually reach Mumbai." The children were safely rescued and brought back to Delhi, where they were reunited with their families.
The Print
3 hours ago
- Politics
- The Print
BJP's Suvendu Adhikari accuses Mamata Banerjee of sharing fake video, seeks legal action
Adhikari alleged that Mamata Banerjee has not retracted her misleading post, despite calls for action from the Delhi Police. He emphasised that no one, including Mamata Banerjee, is above the law and that she must be held accountable under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of posting a fake video over an assault on a Bengali-speaking woman and her child, which he claims is misleading and inappropriate. 'Mamata Banerjee, as the administrative head of West Bengal and a senior politician, has irresponsibly shared a fabricated video. No one is above the law, and she must be held accountable under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Despite demands from the Delhi Police, she has not withdrawn her misleading post,' he said. Earlier on Monday, Delhi Police dismissed the allegations made by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee about a Bengali-speaking woman and her child being assaulted by Delhi Police officials, calling the viral video 'fabricated' and 'baseless.' Addressing the media, Deputy Commissioner of Police (East Delhi) Abhishek Dhania said, 'West Bengal CM posted on 'X' that a Bengali-speaking woman and her child were assaulted by the Delhi Police. Right after receiving the information, we initiated the inquiry and discovered that the lady's name is Sanjanu Parveen… During the interrogation, she said that on 26th July, around 10:30 pm, four policemen who were in their civil clothes came to their house and took them away to a secluded area where they beat them up and demanded Rs. 25,000 from them, which they gave them.' The DCP stated that after a thorough investigation, the allegation posed by the lady was baseless. 'Understanding the seriousness of the situation, we have formed multiple teams since last night. Based on technical and local intelligence, as well as CCTV footage, we have gathered various evidence. Based on that evidence, we found out that the whole story told by this lady is baseless,' he said. 'During the interrogation, she mentioned that her relative, who lives in the Malda district of West Bengal, is a political worker, and on his request, she made this baseless video and shared it with him. Later, he circulated the video in the local media… After a thorough investigation and inquiry, we have concluded that the entire video is baseless and fabricated. This video has been deliberately circulated on social media to tarnish the image of the Delhi Police. Further investigation is still going on,' DCP Dhania added. (ANI) This report is auto-generated from ANI news service. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content. Also read: Brand Mamata Banerjee is losing its biggest support—Bengal's women voters
Indian Express
4 hours ago
- Politics
- Indian Express
BJP MP seeks FIR against Mamata over ‘torture' video post: ‘Bid to malign Delhi Police, incite public discontent'
A day after Delhi Police rejected the claims that a migrant woman from West Bengal and her one-and-a-half-year-old child were 'assaulted and tortured' by policemen in East Delhi, BJP MP from Kanthi has demanded that an FIR be registered against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who had posted the video on her X handle. BJP MP Soumendu Adhikari, in a complaint to the Cyber Crime Branch of the Delhi Police, alleged that West Bengal chief minister deliberately disseminated a 'false, fabricated, and communally charged video' with the intent to malign the image of the Delhi Police and incite public discontent. Soumendu Adhikari is the brother of the Leader Of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari. On July 27, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee posted a video on her X handle and alleged that a Bengali-speaking woman and her child were brutally assaulted by personnel of the Delhi Police in the name of Aadhaar verification. 'Atrocious!! Terrible!!. See how Delhi police brutally beat up a kid and his mother, members of a migrant family from Malda's Chanchal. See how even a child is not spared from the cruelty of violence in the regime of linguistic terror unleashed by the BJP in the country against the Bengalis,' Mamata had posted. A day later, DCP East Delhi, Abhishek Dhania, told mediapersons that the woman in the video had retracted her claims when questioned by police. Referring to Dhania's press conference and the claims made by the police, the BJP MP wrote that 'the intention behind making the video was to create a false narrative and circulate it on social media for political and defamatory purposes.' 'The actions of Mamata Banerjee, in knowingly or recklessly disseminating unverified, provocative and false content, constitute grave offences,' the MP said, demanding a detailed investigation to identify a 'wider conspiracy', and appropriate penal action against the chief minister. The family of the woman, said to be in the video, has, however, stuck with their allegations against the Delhi Police. According to the woman's father-in-law, the family has been staying in Delhi for the past six years and hails from Malda. Meanwhile, relatives of the family in Chanchal, in West Bengal's Malda district, lodged a complaint with the local police on Sunday night. Sweety Kumari reports from West Bengal for The Indian Express. She is a journalist with over a decade of experience in the media industry. Covers Crime, Defence, Health , Politics etc and writes on trending topics. With a keen eye for investigative and human-interest stories. She has honed her craft across diverse beats including aviation, health, incidents etc. Sweety delivers impactful journalism that informs and engages audiences. Sweety Kumari is a graduate of Calcutta University with an Honors degree in Journalism from Jaipuria College and a PG in Mass Communication from Jadavpur University. Originally from Bihar, she is brought up in Kolkata and completed her education from Kendriya Vidyalaya SaltLake. Multilingual, Sweety is fluent in English, Hindi, Bengali, and Maithili. She started her career as an Entertainment and lifestyle journalist with a newsportal in Kolkata. She is working with The Indian Express for 8 years now. ... Read More
Time of India
4 hours ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Bengal BJP slams TMC over child attack video ‘plot'
1 2 Kolkata: A day after Delhi Police refuted charges of a toddler and his mother being harassed in the capital, Bengal BJP on Tuesday hit out at Trinamool's "plot to further its political agenda". "It is unfortunate that Delhi Police is refuting the post made by the chief minister. It was a very weak script by Trinamool to malign others in the name of attack on Bengali migrant workers. This video clearly states that the allegations of harassment of Bengali migrant workers are fabricated," Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said. BJP's Bengal minder Amit Malviya, in a post on X, tried to link infiltration in Bengal with "foreign-funded lobbies and NGOs hostile to India". While charging govt with "enabling infiltration of illegal Bangladeshi Muslims and Rohingya", Malviya said the state machinery was "shielding them for vote-bank politics". You Can Also Check: Kolkata AQI | Weather in Kolkata | Bank Holidays in Kolkata | Public Holidays in Kolkata "We expected more mature politics from the CM. The way a kid was used by Trinamool to further its political agenda is shocking. Such plots will be created in the future too, and people of Bengal will be hoodwinked," junior Union minister Sukanta Majumdar said. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Brain tumor has left my son feeling miserable; please help! Donate For Health Donate Now Undo BJP MP Soumendu Adhikari, state leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari's brother, filed a complaint alleging that it was a fake video. In the complaint, he alleged that CM Mamata Banerjee was "wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot" by posting the video of a kid and her mother from Chachal in Malda. Banerjee, in her post, had alleged that the kid was beaten up by police. Meanwhile, alleging that Banerjee was attempting to "intimidate" booth level officers (BLOs), Adhikari on Tuesday urged EC to take cognizance of the matter and ensure the integrity of the electoral process. In a letter to CEC Gyanesh Kumar, Adhikari alleged that Banerjee had made public statements that constituted a "direct and unwarranted interference" in the duties of BLOs and the broader electoral framework overseen by the EC.
