Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
By Dheeraj Fartode
Since all 83 of the detained suspected Bangladeshi migrants have successfully produced residencial documentats, the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and Nagpur Police’s investigation into illegal immigrants from Bangladesh has come to a standstill.
The suspects were captured from the MIHAN, Bastarwadi (close to Santra Market), and Marwadi Square (Shanti Nagar) on December 28, last year. The people from Bastarwadi and Marwadi Square worked in nearby clothing companies, whereas the people from MIHAN were mostly construction workers.
The accused showed residential certificates from the West Bengal districts of Murshidabad, Nandigram, East Midnapore and the 24 Parganas during the questioning.The police then questioned the suspects specific questions like - name of local MPs and MLAs as part of a two-step verification process. The suspects were released because they gave truthful responses.In the second step, the residences provided by the suspects were verified as real after additional enquiries were conducted with the police stations in the ahove districts in West Bengal. The police have therefore decided that there is not enough evidence to pursue further action, and the inquiry has been put on hold.
ATS dismantles Bangladeshi migrant network
The ATS had delivered a serious blow to a network of Bangladeshi migrants in Nagpur in September 2023. Palash Bipan Baruva (40), a Bangladeshi national living illegally in the Pivali River area of Nagpur, was arrested by the ATS. He was allegedly the main point of contact for illegal Bangladeshi migrants in the area. Baruva had crossed the border in 2010 and spent a year living close to the Pivali River while pretending to be a Buddhist monk. Later, he moved to Kamptee and spent almost three or four years living in a Buddha Vihar. He later became a gym trainer and fall in love with a woman.
Investigation had revealed that Baruva ran a sophisticated network that issued Indian passports to citizens of Bangladesh. He kept close ties with his contacts in Bangladesh even though he lived in Nagpur. When Maitri Baruva and Ankon Baruva, two citizens of Bangladesh, were detained at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in June 2023, the cover of Barua was blown up. The two had tried to use fake Indian passports to get on an overseas flight.
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