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A senior police officer reported that 47 foreign nationals from 12 countries have been arrested in Bihar so far in 2023, the majority while attempting to enter India unlawfully.
As of Friday, Jitendra Singh Gangwar, the additional director general of police (headquarters), said that 32 of the 47 foreigners nabbed were caught trying to enter India illegally on the state’s porous border with Nepal.
Out of the other 15, six have been arrested for smuggling gold, six for breaking the law that says alcohol can’t be sold in Bihar since 2016, and one for carrying drugs, foreign cash, and illegal guns.
One person was from Sudan and the other was from Uzbekistan. They were both trying to enter India illegally through the Indo-Nepal border in Sitamarhi and Madhubani districts on Thursday.
The police have opened different cases at the Sitamarhi Sonbarsa police station and the Madhubani Harlakhi police station.
The judges saw both of them on Friday and sent them to judicial custody.
Gangwar told reporters that the Sudanese man who was caught in Sonbarsa has been named as Nasir Buray Musa Abbas. “Police found a cell phone, a passport, and a trip document from the United States that had expired. Police found that he had been to the UAE in February 2023 and Kenya in March of that year. “After that, he came to Nepal on a vacation visa that expired on July 7, 2023,” the ADG said.
The Sashshtra Seema Bal (SSB), which watches over the border between India and Nepal, detained a woman from Uzbekistan called Mukhabbat Murodova at the Pipron-Jethi check post. She was going from India to Nepal without a visa. “The woman has two passports with the same name on them, as well as an Indian ID card that lists her name as Sultana Sheikh and says she lives in Mahipalpur, Delhi.” An probe by the police is going on, Gangwar said.
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Since the beginning of the year, the ADG has nabbed people from Nepal, Sudan, Myanmar, Russia, the Czech Republic, Tibet (China), East Africa (Uganda), Uzbekistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, the United States, and China.
India and Nepal have an open border, which means that people from either country can cross without a passport or visa.
