TDS Desk:

More than 1,000 Bangladeshi people, including women and children, were detained following combing operations in two cities in the Indian state of Gujarat.

Considering the arrested people as illegal immigrants, the authorities in India started process for their deportation, Gujarat’s minister Harsh Sanghavi said on Saturday.

Indian news portals said 890 Bangladeshis were detained in Ahmedabad and 134 in Surat in the state. The minister described the operations as the biggest operation of its kind by the Gujarat police to date.

He claimed the detainees used fake documents obtained from West Bengal to stay in different parts of India before coming to Gujarat.

The minister said, “A probe will be conducted into the background of these Bangladeshis and their activities in Gujarat.”