PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/Dehradun
Police arrested two Bangladeshi women living illegally in Dehradun. They were nabbed on Friday during an intensive checking drive launched ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the city on November 9. The women were detained during a joint verification campaign by the police and the Local Intelligence Unit (LIU) in Sanskriti Lok Colony, Patelnagar. The officials said that during questioning, both women admitted that they had crossed the Bangladesh border illegally and entered India without valid documents a few years ago. Their Bangladeshi identity cards were recovered from their mobile phones. The officials claimed that both women entered India at different times and met later in Delhi, from where they travelled together to Dehradun. They said that as per the investigation so far, one of the arrested women, identified as Swati Upadhyay alias Mariyam, married an Indian taxi driver named Dharmveer, who had driven her from Delhi to Dehradun. She persuaded him into marriage and has been living with him since, along with their one-year-old daughter. The second woman, identified as Shivli Akhtar alias Jolly alias Sana, married Salman, a carpenter from Saharanpur. She met him in a mall, claimed she worked there and convinced him to marry her. The couple has a 10-month-old son. The officials said that the police are taking legal action to deport both women to Bangladesh. They informed that under Operation Kalnemi, the Dehradun police had earlier arrested and deported seven Bangladeshi nationals found living illegally in the district, while seven others were sent to jail after registration of cases.
