New Delhi: Delhi Police launched a drive on Wednesday to identify illegal Bangladeshi immigrants living in the national capital. This move came a day after the LG’s secretariat directed authorities to crack down on such individuals.
Police sources said teams were formed and they went to different areas in the city, including Kalindi Kunj, Shaheen Bagh and Jamia Nagar. The teams went door-to-door, verifying the identities of residents by checking their Aadhaar Cards and Voter IDs.
Earlier, the LG’s secretariat asked cops to launch a special two-month drive to identify illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in the capital and take action as per the extant rules in a time-bound manner. The move came in the wake of the representation made by the delegation of ulemas and Muslim leaders from Dargah Hazrat Nizamuddin and Basti Hazrat Nizamuddin to LG VK Saxena last Saturday, wherein they expressed deep concern about the attacks being undertaken on the Hindu and other minority communities in Bangladesh.
“Prominent ulemas and Muslim residents have requested that illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators should neither be given houses on rent nor should they be given employment by any establishment. Further, they have requested that their children should not be given admission in any govt or private school,” the principal secretary to LG stated in the letter.
“The Muslim leaders have also demanded the removal of illegal infiltrators from roads, footpaths, parks, and other govt lands, over which they have forcefully encroached, and any documents like Aadhaar Card, Voter ID, or any other govt document acquired illegally by Bangladeshi infiltrators be cancelled immediately. They have also demanded that a special drive, like in the past, should be launched to identify the illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in Delhi and they should be sent back immediately,” the letter read.
