Seven Bangladeshi immigrants were arrested for illegal stay at Virar town in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, police said on Friday.
Palghar police’s anti-terrorism squad nabbed seven Bangladeshi men from a residential colony in Tirupati Nagar in Virar on Wednesday, Palghar police PRO Hemant Katkar said.
The arrested accused did not have any valid documents for their stay in the country, he said.
A case under relevant sections of the Indian Passport Act and Foreigners Act has been registered against the accused with the Arnala police station, he added.
The incident comes on the heels of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill becoming law after receiving the president’s assent on Thursday.
According to the Act, non-Muslim illegal immigrants from Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities, who have come from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan till December 31, 2014 and faced religious persecution there, will be given Indian citizenship.
(With inputs from PTI)
