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The Odisha Police conducted coordinated raids crossed 5 districts arsenic portion of an intensified crackdown connected infiltration, a elder serviceman said.
The cognition was launched connected Tuesday (November 18, 2025) aft authorities demolished a location that allegedly sheltered suspected Bangladeshi nationals successful Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district.
The enactment came adjacent arsenic a 12-hour bandh called by the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) successful Keonjhar disrupted mean life, with demands for the contiguous eviction of suspected infiltrators.
Law Minister Prithviraj Harichandan said the Odisha government, pursuing directives of the Union government, has begun identifying individuals from Bangladesh staying illegally successful Odisha.
“We volition instrumentality ineligible enactment and evict each those recovered staying illegally,” helium asserted.
The constabulary conducted the raids successful Kendrapara, Bhadrak, Keonjhar and Puri districts passim Tuesday, officials said.
In Bhadrak, 17 radical were detained, portion Jagatsinghpur territory constabulary arrested 4 persons and questioned respective others aft recovering weapons, including a pistol, from the location demolished connected Monday, they said.
In Jagatsinghpur's Tirtol constabulary presumption area, astir 20 radical surviving successful rented accommodations successful the Rahama locality were interrogated astir their identities, the quality of their business, and their duration of enactment successful Odisha, according to 1 of those detained.
Puri SP Prateek Singh said each constabulary stations person been instructed to support heightened vigilance, aft reports suggested that immoderate suspects whitethorn person fled during the Jagatsinghpur raid.
“We person asked each constabulary stations successful Puri territory to place persons suspected to beryllium Bangladeshi infiltrators. However, till Tuesday evening, nary person been identified,” Mr. Singh said.
The VHP-led bandh successful Keonjhar saw shutdown of shops, markets, schools, colleges, and vehicular movement, though the time passed without immoderate large law-and-order incidents, constabulary said.
The bandh’s interaction extended beyond Keonjhar municipality to Champua, Joda, Barbil, Patana, Ghasipura and Anandapur, with picketing astatine aggregate locations leaving vehicles stranded on stretches of National Highway-20, the serviceman said.
IGP (Western Range) Brijesh Rai, who visited Keonjhar, described the bandh arsenic peaceful and said the constabulary remained alert to concerns implicit alleged infiltration.
