Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij on Friday said that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted to check illegal immigrants has registered 370 FIRs in cases pertaining to people deported from abroad. Of these 351 persons were arrested and an amount of Rs 1.04 crore has been recovered from them by the police, Vij added.
Vij said that SIT has been constituted at the state-level which will monitor and investigate such cases to put an end to immigration frauds in the State. The SIT team headed by an Inspector General of Police includes six SP-level officers. This team will probe cases pertaining to fraud, worth lakhs committed against youth of the state on the pretext of sending them abroad.
There are several such fraudsters in the state who were sending youth by illegal means to countries like America, Malaysia, Mexico, Dubai etc. There are a total of 421 people from Haryana who have been sent back to India by the governments of these countries.
The Home Minister said that the team has been directed to take prompt action in this regard as a result the police have conducted raids in various districts of the state. Under this, the Special Research Team has received 646 complaints in the last four months, of which 370 complaints have been filed and 276 complaints have been sent to their concerned districts for investigation.
The Home Minister said that the team has been successful in arresting 351 accused based on 51 complaints filed in 2018 and 2019 and 370 complaints filed in the year 2020. During the period from 2008 to 2019, 163 cases were registered under the Migrant Act, however, after the SIT was constituted in the year 2020 the number of cases registered rose by 127 per cent.
Likewise, the number of arrests made by the SIT under the Immigration Act rose by 94 per cent this year as compared to the last 12 years.
Vij said that the Karnal district has registered a maximum of 175 FIRs in the State. Similarly, 80 FIRs were registered in Kurukshetra, 51 FIRs in Kaithal, 44 FIRs in Ambala while districts Bhiwani, Dadri, Sirsa and Narnaul have registered the least FIRs. Apart from these, similar cases have been registered in other districts.