AHMEDABAD: A Bangladeshi woman was arrested on Saturday in Gujarat’s Surat four years after she entered India illegally, police said. During interrogation, the woman, identified as Rasida Begum Jahangir Ali Sheikh, told Surat’s Special Operation Group (SOG) that she had paid 15,000 taka to a Bangladeshi agent who helped her enter India.“I entered India through Bangaon of West Bengal, travelled to Mumbai by train, and settled in Surat after a year and worked in spas,” an SOG official quoted Rasida Begum as saying.“For the past three years, she has been renting rooms at various locations in Surat. The woman also confessed to obtaining an Aadhaar card using fake documents,” the official said. Police also recovered a document identifying her as a Bangladeshi citizen, he said.Police data shows that 22 Bangladeshi nationals have been apprehended in Surat over the past year. In a similar crackdown last month, the Ahmedabad police crime branch detained 48 illegal Bangladeshi nationals, including eight women and six minors.The crackdown exposed cases of human trafficking — Bangladeshi women were brought into India and forced into prostitution, the police said. Investigators also uncovered a network involved in forging documents to create fake identities for Bangladeshi nationals.
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