The Hindu : Illegal Bangladesh migrants nabbed for robberies

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Monday, Nov 11, 2002

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Illegal Bangladesh migrants nabbed for robberies

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI NOV. 10 . Four persons allegedly involved in robberies at the residences of the Excise Collector and a relative of the former Union Minister, Shanti Bhushan, on November 1 and November 5 have been arrested by the Special Staff of the South Delhi police.

Their arrests have exposed an organised network of illegal Bangladeshi migrants who come to the Capital through an agent, commit a series of crimes and then return to the native country. All this, with the help of the hawala channel.

Addressing mediapersons, the Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (South), Praveer Ranjan, said the four were nabbed when they were about to board a train for Howrah at Ghaziabad railway station around 8-30 p.m. on Saturday. The accused have been identified as Mohsin (28), Mohammad Yunus (21), Zakir (20) and Mohammad Hasan (27).

Police recovered a mobile phone, seven wrist watches and gold jewellery worth Rs. 6 lakhs from them.

According to the police, the gang— nicknamed Zakir-Khalil — attacked Mr. Jain's house on November 1. A similar modus operandi was adopted in Anand Vihar incident. The gang was supported and funded with the help of "border operators''. "The accused were smuggled into the country with the help of the agent based in New Delhi. The agent arranges their journey to the capital. He provides them rented accommodation and other logistics, like fake names and odd jobs, in the areas with fair concentration of Bangladeshi migrants,'' said the Additional DCP.

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