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Four overseas nationals housed astatine a exile structure nether the supervision of the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) escaped from the premises successful the aboriginal hours of May 11 by breaking unfastened a model grill astatine the installation located successful Doddagubbi nether the Kothanur constabulary presumption limits.
According to the police, the ailment was filed by Srinivas N., manager of “Home of Hope” shelter, who stated that the women escaped betwixt 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. from the 2nd level of the building.
The shelter, tally by a charitable organisation since 1998, had been accommodating overseas nationals connected the directions of FRRO authorities owed to shortage of abstraction successful detention centres. At present, the structure houses 22 antheral and 18 pistillate overseas nationals.
The escaped women person been identified arsenic Topista Kwikiriza and Nagawa Sheillah alias Tibiwa Irena from Uganda, Safina Nakanyike from Uganda, and Fitina Nzeyimana from Burundi.
Police said the women had earlier been detained by antithetic constabulary stations and FRRO officials for overstaying successful India and allegedly being progressive successful amerciable activities. They were aboriginal shifted to the structure for impermanent accommodation.
The complainant stated that unit members searched for the women aft discovering the escape, but their whereabouts could not beryllium traced, pursuing which a ailment was lodged with the police.
Based connected the complaint, Kothanur constabulary registered a lawsuit nether Sections 20 and 23 of the Immigration and Foreigners Act, 2025, for usurpation of FRRO regulations and amerciable enactment successful the country.
