According to the police, the action, carried out in October this year, was part of ongoing operations by the district police to curb illegal residence and movement of foreign nationals in the area.
Police said that the arrests were made in the Sagarpur and Palam areas following a targeted operation based on specific intelligence inputs.
According to police, during a routine patrol in Nilothi Extension, they received a tip-off about an illegal foreign national hiding in a house in Chander Vihar.
Twenty-nine foreign nationals were detained and deported in June by the Delhi police from Dwarka area of the city. They were found residing without valid documents, cops said on Monday.
A 23-year-old woman, a native of Bangladesh, who had been residing illegally in Vasant Kunj, was held by the Delhi Police on Friday, it said.
In what appears to be a significant step toward addressing the issue of illegal foreign nationals, authorities have intensified efforts to free the national capital from undocumented residents.
A Bangladeshi national, Maria Khatun Mohammad Mansoor Ali, was apprehended at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport after living illegally in India for 33 years using forged documents, officials said on Wednesday.
