Around 20 foreigners, including a minor, who were staying in South Delhi illegally, were detained by police and handed over to the Foreign Regional Registration Office (FRRO).
On the basis of an input recived from the FRRO, the south district police conducted raids in Vasant Kunj and Malviya Nagar on Monday..
Over 100 police personnel, supervised by an Assistant Commissioner of Police carried out the raids. A total of 20 foreigners, 19 women and a child, belonging to different Central Asian countries were briefly detained, police said.
It was found that they had entered India without proper documents and were handed over to the FRRO.
legal action is being initiated against the owners of the places where these foreigners were staying without valid travel documents, police said.