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Gujarat Police person detained 501 Bangladeshi nationals from assorted parts of the State implicit the past 2 days arsenic portion of ‘Operation Delta Hunt’, a Statewide thrust against amerciable immigration, Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi connected Thursday (June 4, 2026).
The operation, which began precocious connected Tuesday (June 2, 2026) night, was carried retired crossed Gujarat pursuing extended readying and quality gathering.
Mr. Sanghavi said 501 radical had truthful acold been verified and detained for allegedly staying successful the state illegally. The authorities were simultaneously scrutinising the credentials and backgrounds of implicit 6,200 different individuals arsenic portion of the ongoing exercise.
“The connection from Gujarat Police is wide — the lone effect to amerciable infiltration is strict action,” the Home Minister said.
Earlier, Mr. Sanghavi said the crackdown had been meticulously planned and executed simultaneously crossed antithetic districts of the State. Police teams had employed a operation of method surveillance and quality quality networks to place suspected amerciable migrants.
A bulk of those detained were engaged successful manual labour, with the highest concentrations recovered successful Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot, Vadodara, and Bharuch, according to the Minister.
Dedicated constabulary teams were investigating individuals who allegedly provided accommodation to the migrants oregon employed them without carrying retired mandatory constabulary verification procedures, helium said.
The cognition remains underway, with the authorities continuing verification and enforcement measures crossed the State.
Mr. Sanghavi besides expressed assurance that the onshore allocated by the caller authorities successful West Bengal for fencing enactment by the Border Security Force on the India-Bangladesh borderline successful the State would further fortify borderline information and assistance forestall amerciable infiltration successful the future.
