Meanwhile, in Surat, a parallel crackdown unfolded between midnight and 6 am, with over 100 police personnel deployed, including six specialized teams led by two DCPs, four ACPs, and ten PIs.The Surat teams raided hotspots across Un, Sachin, Limbayat, Lalgate, and Salabatpura, targeting locations flagged for harboring undocumented immigrants.By dawn, 135 suspected bangladeshi nationals had been detained.All detainees from Surat were transported to the Police Headquarters, where interrogation and document verification procedures are currently underway.Gujarat Minister of State for Home, Harsh Sanghavi, hailed a “historic victory” after Gujarat Police carried out their largest crackdown yet, detaining 890 illegal Bangladeshis in Ahmedabad and 134 in Surat.”The Gujarat Police have shown the ‘red eye’ to those living illegally,” Sanghavi declared. “These individuals entered India through West Bengal using forged documents, spreading across Gujarat and other states. Many are linked to drug cartels, human trafficking, and even sleeper cells like Al Qaeda operatives we caught earlier.”
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