CCB conducts special drive to check up on foreigners in Bengaluru
The Hindu
Around 100 officials from the Central Crime Branch (CCB) participated in a special drive across the city to check on foreign nationals who either are illegal residents or involved in anti-social activ
Around 100 officials from the Central Crime Branch (CCB) participated in a special drive across the city to check on foreign nationals who either are illegal residents or involved in anti-social activities.
“As many as 27 foreign nationals, including 11 women, were not having the travel documents in order and have been sent to the detention centre and cases have been handed over to the FRRO for further action,” a police officer said.
Leaders and legislators hailing from Ballari, which is part of the Kalyana Karnataka region, seem to be a source of much political upheaval in Karnataka, going by recent history. This has been the case since the time illegal mining hit national and international headlines in the 2000s and the place gained reputation as “Republic of Ballari”.
The former BJP MLA of Udupi K. Raghupathi Bhat claimed on Saturday that he contesting the Legislative Council elections from South West Graduates’ Constituency as rebel candidate made the saffron party field its party leader C. T. Ravi in the biennial elections to the Legislative Council from the Legislative Assembly.