Mumbai: Deported Bangladeshi Women Discovered Close to India’s Gateway Arrested

Mumbai: According to the news agency IANS, two Bangladeshi ladies who were deported from India by the police in August 2025 were seen close to the Gateway of India in Mumbai’s Colaba neighborhood. The Cuffe Parade Police took them into custody. According to the authorities, the ladies were deported across the West Bengal border and re-entered the nation via the Ghojadanga forest route, an unauthorized border crossing in North 24 Parganas, West Bengal.

The two ladies are named as Bilkis Begam Siramiya Akthar and Juleka Jamal Shaikh. In August 2025, Juleka was last taken into custody by Agripada police, who, with the assistance of immigration officials, deported them to Bangladesh. The squad from Crime Branch Unit 5 detained and deported Akthar.

The police claim that both ladies are now incarcerated in Byculla. A police official told Hindustan Times, “If we catch such people for the first time, we deport them to Bangladesh from the West Bengal border, but a lot of them return back.”

Additionally, replicas of their Bangladeshi identification cards were discovered on their phones by the police. They were arrested in accordance with the 1946 Foreigners Act, the 1948 Foreigners Order, and the 1950 Passport (Entry into India) Rules.