Overview
- A commissionerate-wide verification drive that intensified after intelligence checks led police to detain groups of suspected undocumented workers, which on Monday resulted in 11 Bangladeshis being identified at two construction sites in Urwa.
- Police say the total number of recent detainees in separate operations has reached at least 19 and that recovered Bangladeshi identity cards and birth records helped establish their nationality.
- Two alleged agents were arrested in Mangaluru and a third — identified as Rasul/Rasool Islam — was traced and taken into custody in Kolkata, with FIRs registered against Moydin/Moyiddin Islam, Dilwar/Dilawar Hussain and Rasul/Rasool Islam.
- Authorities have forwarded a comprehensive report to the Foreigners Regional Registration Office to seek formal detention and deportation orders and are holding the detainees in temporary facilities pending FRRO action.
- Investigators are probing how the network operated, including the use of forged local identity documents and the role of middlemen who placed undocumented Bangladeshis alongside Indian migrant labour, and they say more arrests are likely as the inquiry continues.