TL-ROHINGYAS-ARREST

Four Rohingyas held for illegally procuring Aadhaar cards

Hyderabad, Aug 14 (PTI) Four Rohingyas including a woman

were today arrested for allegedly illegally procuring Aadhaar

and Voter ID cards by making false representation of being

Indian nationals, police said.

The four Myanmar nationals had migrated to Hyderabad as

refugees around five years back and enrolled with the United

Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), they said.

Two locals helped them procure Aadhaar cards, Voter ID

cards by providing false declaration of their residential

proof, Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh M Bhagwat said.

A city resident Mohammed Bin Omer was also arrested.

A police team seized UNHCR cards besides Voter ID and

Aadhaar cards (which the accused procured by suppressing their

identities as Rohingya refugees of Myanmar) from the

possession of the accused and they are being produced before a

local court, the Commissioner said.

Hyderabad is home to an estimated 3,500-4,000 Rohingyas,

who reside in camps in different parts of the city.

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