Chennai: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) sleuths are carrying out searches at six places in sub-urban Chennai including Pallikaranai, Padappai, and Kelambakkam in connection with the trafficking of people from Bangladesh to different parts of the country including the city.
The raids are part of the nationwide searches in connection with the case.
Meanwhile, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) picked up at least three Bangladeshi citizens who were staying illegally in Padappai, Maraimalai Nagar, and Thiruvallur today.
The three were posing as migrant workers from West Bengal or NE states and staying near Chennai with fake identity cards.
Further another Bangladeshi who was staying in Maraimalai Nagar also managed to get a fake Aadhar card from a Tripura address and both of them were picked up for interrogation.
A couple of months ago, NIA officials held searches at different locations in Tamil Nadu in cases related to anti-India activities of the banned terror outfit Popular Front of India (PFI). According to sources, raids were underway in Chennai, Dindigul, Madurai and Theni.
Multiple teams of the NIA conducted these searches at the residential and other premises of the suspects in the case in close coordination with Tamil Nadu Police. The NIA registered the case on September 19 last year.
Last year, the NIA also conducted searches on the premises of arrested accused persons in different locations all over Tamil Nadu and many incriminating documents and articles, and digital devices were seized.