Senior police officers revealed that Aamir Hamza used to lure girls from Myanmar on the pretext of good job opportunities and salary.
The Anti-Terrorism Squad of the Uttar Pradesh Police have arrested four Rohingyas including three women, all of them native of Myanmar, who had entered India illegally, police said on Thursday.
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The four were identified as Amir Hamza, 21, Meena Jahan, 19, Sakura Begaum, 22, and Onara Begum, 19. The suspects impersonated themselves as Indian citizens using forged documents, ATS claimed.
Director General of Police (DGP), Prashant Kumar, said that the Uttar Pradesh ATS had been gathering intelligence regarding the illegal entry of Rohingya citizens into India through the porous India-Bangladesh border.
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“These individuals were suspected of using forged documents to establish themselves as Indian nationals and engaging in anti-national activities across various states in India. Upon receiving credible information, the Uttar Pradesh ATS team intercepted a group of Rohingya citizens, including women, travelling from Silchar, Assam, to New Delhi via train on March 27,” Kumar added.
Senior police officers revealed that Aamir Hamza used to lure girls from Myanmar on the pretext of good job opportunities and salary.
Later, he provided them with fake Indian identities and sent them to states like Jammu and Kashmir, Telangana and Karnataka.
Sources further said Aamir would be subjected to further questioning. He would be questioned about his associates in Bangladesh as well as in India and how many young girls he had trafficked from Myanmar to India.
This is, however, not an only case of illegal migration as recently more Rohingyas and Chinese nationals have been trying to infiltrate the border via several means.
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Two Chinese nationals, Zhou Pulin and Yuan Yuhan, were apprehended by SSB in Uttar Pradesh for illegal migrating from Nepal. They aimed to meet Dalai Lama in Bengaluru, guiding Google Maps.
