Thirteen allegedly undocumented Bangladeshi migrants were detained in Gurugram on Tuesday, PTI reported.

Assistant Commissioner of Police Naveen Sharma told reporters that the crime branch team had carried out checks after receiving inputs “in view of national security and law enforcement”.

The persons had been residing in several areas of Gurugram, Sharma added.

“Some were living in slums, while others were working at construction sites,” PTI quoted the police officer as saying. “Our team conducted a thorough interrogation and search operation to detain these 13 persons.”

The police alleged that the persons had Bangladeshi identity documents and “were found calling Bangladeshi phone numbers to contact their families residing there”.

Steps were being taken to deport them, he added. They will be detained at a centre while the legal process is completed.

Since the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam in April 2025, the police in several states ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party have been detaining Bengali-speaking persons – mostly Muslims – and asking them to prove that they are Indian citizens.

Several persons have been forced into Bangladesh after they allegedly could not prove their Indian citizenship. In some cases, persons who were mistakenly sent to Bangladesh returned to the country after state authorities in India proved that they were Indians.

Scroll has also reported on several cases of persons who were forced into Bangladesh being brought back to India, as the authorities had failed to follow the process laid down by the Union home ministry for such deportations.

On June 3, the Ahmedabad Police detained more than 290 alleged undocumented Bangladeshi migrants for interrogation. The police had said that it had carried out searches and verification of the persons' identity documents following intelligence inputs.

Edited by Tanya Shrivastava.

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