NEW DELHI, JUNE 14: The drive launched by Delhi Police to identify illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and send them back is now posing problems for the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) here, which deals with deportation.With the drive going on in full swing for the past one week, under the direction of Delhi Police Commissioner Ajai Raj Sharma, about 100 illegal Bangladeshi immigrants have already been referred to the FRRO, FRRO chief P K Bhardwaj told newsmen."We are finding it difficult to make arrangements for the steady flow of illegal Bangladeshi nationals. So far 100 such people have been referred to us by the local police," he said.Aniticipating more flow of such illegal immigrants, the FRRO has appealed to the authorities concerned to provide additional accommodation for these immigrants pending their deportation."These 100 Bangladeshi nationals have been kept in Lampur Seva Sadan pending their deportation to their country and we will not be able to accommodate more such people there", Bhardwaj said.Stating that this issue has been raised with the concerned authorities, he hoped that something positive would emerge at the earliest.As per procedure, the local police detain the illegal immigrants after thoroughly verifying their antecedents and then refer them to the FRRO.The FRRO in turn verfies the antecedents once again and refers their cases to the BSF for deportation, the formality of which takes 15 to 20 days, Bhardwaj said.Pending deportation, it becomes the responsibility of the FRRO to keep such illegal immigrants under its custody, he said.Most of the arrests of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants have been carried out in North-East and East Delhi with officials there saying that about 300 more Bangladeshi immigrants are likely to be detained in the near future.
