City Police today rounded up 15 Myanmarese nationals and booked cases against them for allegedly illegally staying in the country.
Cases have been registered against the foreign nationals under relevant sections of the Foreigners Act, police said.
"As part of a cordon and search operation, 15 teams and one Armed Section, along with one video camera party, conducted searches in different localities in the Kanchanbagh and Chandrayangutta police station limits this morning," Deputy Commissioner of Police (West Zone) V Satyanarayana said.
Police found over 117 people, including Myanmar nationals, and is in the process of checking their complicity, he added.
Of these, 49 people (32 from Bihar, 11 from Odisha and three each from Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan) were rounded up at Indira Nagar in the Chandrayangutta police station area, Satyanarayana said.
The remaining 68 people (19 from Bihar, five from Assam, three from UP and 41 refugees from Myanmar) were rounded up at Hafeez Baba Nagar in the Kanchanbagh area and police was checking their complicity by way of collecting address/ID proofs, fingerprints, etc.," the senior officer said.
Most of these people work as labourers in bangle-making, sari printing and plastic mat-making units while some work as masons, police said.
"Of the 41 refugees from Myanmar found residing in the Kanchanbagh police station area, only 26 possessed refugee cards issued by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The remaining 15 did not have these cards and were staying illegally. Their entry is illegal," the DCP said.
