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Lavkesh Bajaj, the proprietor of Flourish Stay B&B installation successful southbound Delhi’s Hauz Rani village, wherever a occurrence killed 21 people, had antecedently been arrested successful a abstracted lawsuit involving “undocumented” Bangladeshi immigrants, Delhi Police said connected Friday.
According to the Central territory police, Mr. Bajaj was arrested astatine the Paharganj constabulary presumption successful January 2025 for allowing Bangladeshi nationals to usage his residential code to get Indian individuality documents.
Officers recovered that 2 Bangladeshi nationals – Sweety Sarkar alias Beauty Hawladar and her girl Pushpo Sarkar alias Pushpo Hawladar – on with Ms. Pushpo’s insignificant son, were illegally residing successful a location successful Paharganj utilizing fraudulently obtained Indian documents, including passports and Aadhaar cards.
The probe revealed that Ms. Sweety had obtained an Indian passport by furnishing the code of a spot successful Chhattarpur Enclave. Police verification recovered that the code belonged to Mr. Bajaj.
The accused had admitted that helium knowingly permitted them to usage his code for obtaining Indian individuality documents successful speech for wealth and facilitating their amerciable enactment successful the country, the constabulary said. The 3 accused were aboriginal arrested and a chargesheet was filed against them.
Police arrested Mr. Bajaj connected Wednesday and booked him nether BNS sections pertaining to culpable homicide not amounting to execution and grievous hurt, among others.
On Thursday, a metropolis tribunal remanded him successful constabulary custody for 4 days.
