Continuous action is going on against illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in the country's capital Delhi. Delhi Police claims that from June 2025 to February 2026, a total of 1,589 illegal Bangladeshis were identified and arrested in the capital. After this, all of them were sent back to Bangladesh via Agartala-Bangladesh border. This is more than double the 720 people caught in the last seven months (November 2024 to May 2025).
This campaign against Bangladeshi immigrants was started in November 2024 following the instructions of the Union Home Ministry (MHA). The Home Ministry had ordered the identification, verification and detention of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and Rohingya refugees. In this sequence, Delhi Police started action. According to Delhi Police data, around 220 illegal Bangladeshi immigrants were detained and handed over to the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) between November 15, 2024 and April 20, 2025. After this, it was transported to the eastern states by rail and road and sent to Bangladesh through the border.
It is said that after the terrorist attack in Pahalgam on 22 April 2025, the operation was further intensified. Within a month, around 500 illegal Bangladeshi immigrants were detected. From June 2025 to February 2026, 1,589 illegal Bangladeshis and 55 Rohingya people were detained. According to the data, in 2025, the maximum number of people were detained from the outer districts of Delhi (386). This is followed by South-Eastern districts (287), North-Western (249), Northern (194), Southern (191), Outer-Northern (183), South-Western (168), Central (140), Western (148), Eastern (118), Dwarka (99), Shahdara (80), Rohini (71), North-Eastern (57) and New Delhi (20) respectively.
A senior Delhi Police official said that the Outer District team received information that most of the migrants were working as laborers in brick kilns in the border areas of Haryana and Rajasthan. We traced their contractors and associates and conducted a search operation and detained all the illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
Initially, DCPs of 15 police districts led the verification drive. The captured people were taken to West Bengal by train under the supervision of FRRO officers and taken to BSF posts by bus. After the Pahalgam terrorist attack, he was sent by special air flights from Hindon Air Base in Ghaziabad to Agartala. Since then, 1,589 Bangladeshi migrants have been sent back from Hindon through several special flights.
District Police, Crime Branch and Special Cell have registered several FIRs and several chargesheets have also been filed to investigate illegal infiltration, fake documents, addresses and networks providing jobs. The Home Ministry has instructed police chiefs of all states and union territories to increase surveillance on the borders.
