Ahmedabad: 290 allegedly undocumented Bangladeshi immigrants detained, being interrogated

The Ahmedabad Police on Wednesday said that they had detained more than 290 alleged undocumented Bangladeshi migrants for interrogation, Gujarat Samachar reported.

While 131 persons were apprehended, 160 others were being interrogated by the police, ANI reported.

The police carried out searches and verifications in Chandola, Gulabnagar and Khodiyarnagar areas of Ahmedabad on Tuesday night, the news agency quoted the Joint Commissioner of Police Sharad Singhal as saying. The searches were conducted following intelligence inputs.

The police teams checked the documents of the persons, verified their identity and conducted preliminary inquiries to determine whether they had documents permitting them to be in India, Gujarat Samachar reported.

The authorities were also examining whether the documents such as Aadhaar cards and voter identity cards have been forged, the newspaper reported.

Since the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam in April 2025, the police in several states ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party have been detaining Bengali-speaking persons – mostly Muslims – and asking them to prove that they are Indian citizens.

Several persons have been forced into Bangladesh after they allegedly could not prove their Indian citizenship. In some cases, persons who were mistakenly sent to Bangladesh returned to the country after state authorities in India proved that they were Indians.

Scroll has also reported on several cases of persons who were forced into Bangladesh being brought back to India, as the authorities had failed to follow the process laid down by the Union home ministry for such deportations.

Edited by Tanya Shrivastava.

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