19-05-2025
Korean national living illegally in India for 6 yrs held at Raxaul
Motihari: A joint team of police and immigration officials on Sunday arrested a
from a hotel at Raxaul while he was preparing to enter Nepal through the India-Nepal border.
Police after quizzing Kim Yang Dey produced him in a Motihari court on Monday and remanded him to jail custody.
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SDPO of Raxaul, Dhirendra Kumar, said Kim Yang was holding a passport of South Korea and had been living illegally in India for the last six years without valid documents. He had plans to return back to his country via Nepal. The police have lodged a case against him under Immigration and Foreigners Act, 2025 in Raxaul police station, he added.
During interrogation Kim Yang revealed that he came to India on an employment visa in 2017 and got a job as a project manager in an engineering firm at Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu.
His passport number was issued on Jan 9, 2017 and an Indian visa was given on Jan 20, 2017, whose validity expired on Jan 19, 2018. He, however, claimed that the visa was extended twice till 2021, but he could not provide any proof of this. Despite expiry of his visa, he was living illegally in India, said the SDPO.
He further said he met a woman from Manipur on social media and was in a live-in relationship with her since 2019. A girl was born out of their relationship on Feb 27, 2023. He claimed that he later married the Manipur girl and was living in India with her support.
The police, however, said legal proof of his marriage with the Manipur woman was not produced by him.
