Jammu And Kashmir Varieties Panel To Determine Foreigners Staying Illegally
In 2021, the Jammu and Kashmir Police had launched a significant crackdown towards unlawful immigrants.
Jammu:
The Jammu and Kashmir administration has arrange a six-member committee to determine international nationals who’re illegally staying within the Union Territory since January 2011.
The house division in an order said that the committee will put together a month-to-month report and submit it by the seventh day of each month to the Union residence ministry.
The monetary commissioner-cum-additional chief secretary of the house division would be the chairperson of the panel which was constituted in response to a November 26, 2020, communication by the house ministry, the order learn.
The members of the committee embrace the Foreigners Regional Registration Officer (FRRO) of Punjab, senior superintendents of police (SSPs), the Jammu and Kashmir Police’s Prison Investigation Division (Particular Department) of each Jammu and Srinagar, and all SSPs and SPs (Foreigners Registration Workplace).
In 2021, the Jammu and Kashmir Police had launched a significant crackdown towards unlawful immigrants and detained over 270 Rohingyas from Myanmar, together with 74 girls and 70 kids, on the sub-jail in Kathua district’s Hiranagar.
The jail was ultimately became a holding centre for foreigners staying illegally within the Union Territory.
Rohingyas are a Bengali-dialect talking Muslim minority in Myanmar. Following persecution of their nation, a lot of them entered India illegally by way of Bangladesh and took shelter in Jammu and different elements of the nation.
Greater than 13,700 foreigners, together with Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshi nationals, are settled in Jammu and Samba districts of Jammu and Kashmir, the place their inhabitants has elevated by greater than 6,000 between 2008 and 2016, in line with authorities knowledge.
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