AGRA/DEHRADUN/HARIDWAR: As many as 90 Bangladeshi nationals, together with 22 kids, had been taken into custody in Mathura district for allegedly staying in India illegally. The group was apprehended from brickyards in Khajpur village beneath Naujheel police station limits within the temple city. Individually, Uttarakhand police additionally arrested two overseas nationals — a US citizen and a Bangladeshi lady — throughout a verification drive.Appearing on a tip-off obtained Friday, joint groups from Mathura’s Naujheel police station and the Native Intelligence Unit (LIU) performed a raid and detained 37 males, 31 girls, and 22 kids. Through the operation, police additionally seized 31 cellphones, two Aadhaar playing cards, 4 photocopies of Aadhaar playing cards, and one PAN card.A senior Mathura police official concerned within the probe advised TOI, “Throughout questioning, they advised us that they had arrived 10 to fifteen years in the past, crossing porous borders. After that, they moved round in Delhi, Haryana, Bihar and so on. They had been in Mathura for almost 3–4 months, whereas some arrived 15–20 days in the past within the metropolis. We’ve began questioning the contractors and house owners of the brick yards the place they had been working.” He added that a number of the kids are as younger as two to a few months.Mathura SSP Shlok Kumar stated, “A case has been filed beneath Part 14 of Foreigners Act, 1946 and BNS Sections 318(4) (dishonest), 338 (forgery), 336 (altering paperwork), 340(2) (cast doc or digital document as real, realizing it to be cast). The Aadhaar playing cards seized from them are from UP’s Pratapgarh and different districts. Central businesses have additionally been knowledgeable about this, and we are going to transfer forward within the course of deporting them lawfully.”In the meantime, in Uttarakhand, police arrested a US nationwide from Pithoragarh on April 30 and a Bangladeshi lady from Haridwar on Thursday. Each had been discovered to be residing within the state with out legitimate paperwork.