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Business News/ News / India/  Kodagu police conduct verification drive for out-of-state plantation workers
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Kodagu police conduct verification drive for out-of-state plantation workers

Around 5,000 people from states such as Bihar, UP, Rajasthan, Assam and other states lined up to provide identity cards
  • The district police that carried out the exercise said the verification was conducted in the interest of safety and security
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    Representative image (Photo: HT)

    Bengaluru: Around 5,000 people from states such as Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Assam and other states lined up to provide identity cards and prove their Indian citizenship as local authorities carried out a drive to identify illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in the coffee growing district of Kodagu, about 250 km of Bengaluru.

    The district police that carried out the exercise said the verification was conducted in the interest of safety and security.

    “Kodagu district has a lot of coffee estates and there are a lot of labourers coming from out of the state. So in this backdrop and also due to the latests backdrop of crimes which are taking place by these outsiders there has been a lack of knowledge about their whereabouts," Suman D.Pennekar, the Superintendent of Police, Kodagu district said on Thursday in Kodagu.

    The exercise in Kodagu comes in the backdrop of the passing and protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and proposed nationwide National Register of Citizens (NRC).

    Facing an acute labour shortage, coffee estate owners in Kodagu often house workers from other parts of the country, especially during the busy coffee picking season around February.

    The verification exercise in Kodagu comes days after the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the city’s civic body), and city police were accused of demolishing around 200 homes of people they assumed were illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.

    The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday came down hard on BBMP and the city police for razing the homes of people who were identified as people from parts of north Karnataka and other north eastern states and not from Bangladesh as alleged by the authorities.

    The administration in Kodagu has been trying to identify illegal immigrants even when the district was inundated by floods and affected people were housed in shelters, Mint had reported on 21 August, 2018.

    Pennekar said that some of the people who were not able to produce documents will be scrutinised and their identities will be verified.

    She added that the district police will continue these drives to maintain safety and security in Kodagu.

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    Published: 23 Jan 2020, 10:08 PM IST
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