90 Bangladeshi nationals held during police verification drive in UP village

Police said 90 individuals employed at a brick kiln were found to be citizens of Bangladesh during a drive to verify the identity of labourers working in rural parts of the district

Published on: May 17, 2025, 17:46:22 IST

By Hemendra Chaturvedi

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AGRA: At least 90 Bangladeshi nationals were taken into custody during a police verification drive in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura district on Friday evening.

Police said those detained were found to be residing at a brick kiln in Khajpur village for the past 3-4 months after shifting from a nearby state. (Representational image)

Mathura senior superintendent of police (SSP) Shlok Kumar said 90 individuals employed at a brick kiln in Khajpur village within Naujheel police station limits were found to be citizens of Bangladesh during a drive to verify the identity of labourers working in rural parts of the district.

“All of them have been taken into custody and they are being interrogated,” the SSP said.

“Those detained include 35 men, 27 women and 28 children. They were found to be residing at the brick kiln in Khajpur village for the past 3-4 months after shifting from a nearby state,” Kumar said.

“Other relevant agencies have been informed and investigation is ongoing to find out how they reached here from Bangladesh. Their documents are being examined, and the contractor who bought them is also being questioned,” the SSP said.

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Hemendra Chaturvedi
Hemendra Chaturvedi is a senior journalist based at Agra. He covers eight districts of Agra and Aligarh division namely Agra, Mathura, Mainpuri, Firozabad, Aligarh, Etah, Kasganj and Hathras. He had been with HT since 1992 and has completed three decades of association with HT and has worked for Hindustan Times only all through his career of about 35 years. Having Masters in Chemistry, Hemendra is also a law graduate with diploma in Personnel Management and has utilised broad based academic qualifications in his indepth, accurate and high impact stories from this part of western Uttar Pradesh while being based in the city of Taj Mahal. In such long span of career with Hindustan Times, Hemendra Chaturvedi has led his team of reporters which was instrumental in bringing out supplements including Region Scan, Agra Live, HT City time to time and proven his leadership qualities and has made presence of HT felt in the region covered by him. In the process of time, Hemendra has attained expertise in a variety of beats, being sole reporter for HT and has covered Aligarh Muslim University, Taj Mahal centric tourism, religiously sensitive city of Mathura and had been witness to Agra Summit having attendance of top leaders of India and Pakistan.Read More

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