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Mangaluru police arrest 38 illegal immigrants from Sri Lanka
Mangaluru police arrest 38 illegal immigrants from Sri Lanka
In a major crackdown on human trafficking, the city crime branch police have arrested 38 Sri Lankans who sneaked into India
Mangaluru: In a major crackdown on human trafficking, the city crime branch police have arrested 38 Sri Lankans who sneaked into India.
The arrests were made on Friday, following raids on several locations in Mangaluru and its surrounding localities.
According to Mangaluru Police Commissioner N. Shashi Kumar, the illegal immigrants had allegedly been promised jobs in Canada, before being trafficked to India. After shipping them from Sri Lanka to Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu on March 17, the traffickers had shifted the immigrants to Karnataka, to evade heightened scrutiny during the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls.
During their stay in Mangaluru, the illegal immigrants claimed they were daily wage workers and fishermen from Tamil Nadu. The police commissioner said that a tip-off from Tamil Nadu police had led to the raids.
Six local persons have also been arrested on charges of sheltering the illegal immigrants.
