Major crackdown on Rohingyas, facilitators in 6 Distts of Jammu

14 FIRs registered, Aadhaar cards, other documents seized

*Deportation may be next step after crushing support system

Police today launched major crackdown
on support system of
Rohingyas across six districts of
Jammu region including
Jammu, Doda, Kishtwar,
Ramban, Rajouri and Poonch
and lodged 14 First Information
Reports (FIRs), the highest

seven in Jammu district, arrested
and detained nearly 50 persons
including seven married
couples and booked 44 others
amid reports that deportation of
the illegal immigrants might be
initiated later.
This is for the first time that
drive against those facilitating settlement
of Rohingyas in Jammu
by helping them manage Aadhaar,
ration and voters cards etc, giving
houses or plots on rent for living
and assisting in electricity and
water connections, was carried out
by the police simultaneously in six
districts of the Jammu region.
Aformer BJP Corporator was
also detained for sheltering
Rohingyas but was released later.

Seven FIRs have been registered
in Jammu district, three in
Doda and one each in Ramban,
Poonch, Rajouri and Kishtwar districts A total of 19 persons have
been arrested while 44 others have
been booked, the officials said,
adding many others have been
detained for questioning.
“Certain elements have been
involved in facilitating the illegal
settlement of Rohingyas, posing
potential threats to the security
and socio-economic fabric of the
UT of J&K. The presence of
undocumented and unauthorized
individuals not only poses
security challenges but also has

the potential to strain local
resources,” IGP Jammu Zone
Anand Jain told reporters here
this evening after police raids

concluded in six districts.
He said Police have undertaken
targeted operations to identify
and apprehend the facilitators
involved in providing shelter to
the foreign immigrants.
“The actions taken are in accordance
with the law and are aimed
at maintaining law and order in the
region. The facilitators, once
apprehended, will be subject to
legal proceedings, and any viola-

tion of laws pertaining to national
security and immigration will be
dealt with firmly,” Jain said.
Referring to registration of
seven FIRs in Jammu, he said over
30 persons were detained for questioning
during searches on 30
Rohingya settlements in the city.
DIG Jammu-Samba-Kathua
Range Shakti Pathak told the
Excelsior that the drive was
aimed at identifying support system
of Rohingyas and targeting
them initially as they were facilitating
their stay illegally.
“Seven FIRs have been registered
at Trikuta Nagar, Channi
Himmat, Bagh-e-Bahu, Nowabad,
Satwari, Domana and Nagrota
police stations in Jammu district. A
total of 34 persons have been
booked for facilitating stay of
Rohingyas in Jammu including giving
their houses on rent, vacant plots
for construction of jhuggies; and
arranging Aadhaar, ration and voters
cards etc,’’ Pathak said, adding
the facilitators of illegal immigrants
have been targeted initially.
He added that some incriminating
documents have been recovered
which are being scrutinized for further
investigations and action.
Pathak said houses of all 34 persons
who facilitated stay of
Rohingyas in Jammu were searched
simultaneously this morning and
some incriminating material and
documents have been recovered for
scrutiny and investigations.
There have been reports that
some touts had been helping
Rohingyas get electricity and power
connections in their jhuggies or rented
houses which, in turn, are used by
them to manage Aadhaar, voter and
ration cards to mix up with local population
and get married here.
Arrest of seven married couples
indicated that the Rohingyas had
started mixing up with local population
by getting necessary documents
and could become potential
security threat later.
Some of the officials said that
action against facilitators of
Rohingyas could be first step
towards their deportation for which
a policy might be worked out by the
Government of India.
The searches in the presence of
the Magistrates were conducted at
different locations where the noncitizens
are accommodated and also
at the residential places of the facilitators,
the officials said, adding that
illegally acquired Indian documents
like PAN cards, Aadhaar cards and
bank documents among other
incriminating materials were seized
during the searches.
The IGP Jammu said the police
is developing a mechanism for
timely verification of antecedents of
tenants, domestic helpers and hotel
occupants for the overall security of
the people.
Jain also said the operation
against terrorists and their sympathizers
will continue with more
vigour in the twin border districts of
Poonch and Rajouri to ensure a
peaceful atmosphere there.
“We are going to develop a
mechanism soon for timely verification
(of tenants, domestic helpers
and hotel guests) so that no security
threat emerges,” he said.
He was responding to a question
about non-enthusiastic
response of people to the police
advisories to provide information
about their tenants and domestic
helpers to the nearest police station.
The IGP said the police have
already taken necessary steps and
are routinely carrying out searches
at different places besides checking
registries at hotels.
On the ongoing anti-terrorist
operations in Rajouri and Poonch,
he said the operations are on and
will be further intensified to maintain
peace in the border districts.
The IGP Jammu Zone said all
the cases pertaining to Rohingyas
and their facilitators are in their primary
stages of investigation and a
detailed picture will emerge as the
probe moves forward, leading to
more arrests in the process.
“Our primary focus was to identify
the aiders and abettors who are
helping the illegal immigrants to
settle in Jammu region and also providing
them necessary support to
acquire basic services. They have
taken it as a business,” Jain said.
He said an official was detained
for questioning in Poonch for his
role in helping Rohingyas to get certain
documents.
“Legal action will follow against
those who are involved in creating
these forged documents,” he said,
adding they will have a comprehensive
approach looking into all angles
including human trafficking and all
agencies will be taken on board to
take the investigations of the cases to
their logical conclusion.
He said the searches led to the
recovery of a lot of documents like
Aadhaar cards, ration cards, voter
ID cards, revenue records, rent
deeds and passbooks besides
mobile phones and SIM cards.
“Investigation into the matter has
started and other details will be shared
subsequently. Stringent action in the
future shall be taken against all such
defaulters,” the officials said.
Six men and their Rohingya
wives were among 13 persons
arrested from Kishtwar’s
Dachhan area.
“The arrests were carried out on
the basis of credible evidence, and
the individuals are being investigated
for their alleged involvement in
activities contrary to law and public
order,” the official said.
Four persons — Gulzar Ahmad
Bhat and his Rohingya wife Rafiqa
Begum, Manzoor Ahmad and
Dilara Begum, who had also married
a local — were booked at
Dharamkund Police Station in
Ramban district and arrested.
Foreigners and their facilitators
were booked under charges of illegally
procuring Indian documents like
domicile certificates, Aadhar cards,
ration cards, voter ID cards and PAN
cards for stay in Ramban, police said.
Three persons, identified as
Nazir Ahmad Gujjar, Mohd Sayaf,
and Waseem Akram, were arrested
for helping a Rohingya at
Dhargloon village of Poonch district
with a fake Aadhar card and
ration card.
Gujjar, who had married off
his daughter, Farzana Kosser, to
Mohd Numaan, a Rohingya
Muslim, in 2016, had managed
fake Aadhaar card and ration
card for his son-in-law, police said.
Numaan, who was arrested on
November 30, is presently in judicial
custody.
The spokesperson said that
another facilitator, Lal Din, was
arrested from his Laam-Nowshera
residence in Rajouri district following
an investigation of a case registered
in October after the arrest of a
Myanmar woman named Haleema,
who is currently out on bail.
The spokesperson said the
police have registered three FIRs in
Doda district against 10 foreign
immigrants, mainly Rohingyas and
Bangladeshi nationals, and their
facilitators, for illegally procuring
Indian identity papers.
Two of these cases were registered
at the Bhaderwah Police
Station, while another case was
lodged at the Gandoh Police Station.
An investigation in all three
cases has been launched to ascertain
the immigrants’ facilitators, as well
as the Government employees
involved in the facilitation of the
Indian papers for them.
Thousands of Rohingyas entered
India illegally through Bangladesh
and took shelter in Jammu and other
parts of the country following persecution
in Myanmar.
According to Government data,
more than 13,700 foreigners, most
of them Rohingya Muslims and
Bangladeshi nationals, are settled in
Jammu and other districts of Jammu
and Kashmir, where their population
increased by over 6,000
between 2008 and 2016.
In March 2021, police found
over 250 Rohingyas, including
women and children, living illegally
in Jammu city during a verification
drive and lodged them in a holding
centre inside the Kathua Sub-Jail.
Former BJP Corporator Sucha
Singh was called for questioning
by Nowabad police for giving
shelter to Rohingyas in his plot.
However, he was allowed to go as
documents of the plot were on
another name.
Meanwhile, the IGP Jammu said
Jammu and Kashmir Police is fully
capable of meeting any challenge.
Jain was speaking to media persons
after inaugurating a cricket
tournament organised by the police
in the honour of its martyrs in
Kathua district.
“The J&K Police is fully capable
to meet any challenge and are promise-
bound (to root out terrorism),”
Jain said, responding to a question
about the possibility of growing terrorist
activities along the Jammu border
during the ongoing winter.
Heavy snowfall along the Line
of Control in Kashmir and parts of
Jammu region closes the possible
infiltration routes but the threat of
infiltration multiplies along the
International Border in Kathua,
Samba and Jammu districts amidst
foggy conditions.
Asked about the smuggling of
narcotics from Punjab into Jammu
and Kashmir, he said all cases are
under investigation to expose all
forward and backward links.

 

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