Bengaluru cops step up drive against illegal Bangladeshi migrants
Bengaluru, Oct 28: The drive against illegal Bangladeshi migrants has been intensified following a tip from the NIA that terror outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh is setting up base in South India, especially in Bengaluru, and some other parts of the State, police said on Monday.
As many as 60 illegal Bangladeshi migrants living in shanties around Bengaluru and doing menial jobs, were recently detained, they said.
They were nabbed from Marathahalli, Ramamurthy Nagar, HAL, KR Puram, Bellandur and other places, police said, adding that these people will be deported.
"Our drive is going on. We had information about the 60 people whom we detained day-before-yesterday," Additional Commissioner of Police Sandeep Patil told PTI.
When asked how many illegal Bangladeshi migrants could be staying in the city, Patil said he cannot speculate.
"As and when we get information, we will act," he added.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had recently busted one of the modules of the JMB in and around Bengaluru and seized many materials including improvised explosive devices.
The NIA during its national conference had sounded an alert against growing activities of the JMB, which was involved in the Burdwan bomb blast in West Bengal, and asked the southern states to be cautious about the outfit's operations.
Following this, the Karnataka government decided to set up a Bengaluru-specific Anti-Terror Squad.
While making an announcement about the ATS, Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai had said there was a possibility of more than 20 such groups being active in the state and ordered a crackdown on illegal Bangladeshi migrants in Bengaluru.
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NIA raids multiple locations in J&K in Red Fort blast case
New Delhi/Srinagar (PTI): The National Investigation Agency on Monday conducted searches at various locations in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with its probe into the Red Fort car bomb blast case, officials said.
“The searches are being conducted at nine places in various locations of J-K,” an NIA spokesperson said.
The locations included the Handwara area of Kupwara district, Rafiabad in Baramullah district, and places in Kulgam and Srinagar districts, among others, the officials said.
At least 13 people were killed, and several others were injured in the blast near the Red Fort that shook the national capital on November 10 last year.
The blast was triggered by suicide bomber Umar Un Nabi, a medical doctor and assistant professor at Al Falah University in Faridabad, Haryana, who blew up an explosive-laden car he was driving outside the iconic monument.
The NIA has so far arrested 11 accused in the case.
