Maharashtra: FIR filed against 156 foreign attendees of Nizamuddin congregation
Mumbai/UNI: Maharashtra police have registered an FIR against 156 foreigners from 18 countries for violating their visa rules and attending the Nizamuddin congregation held last month, stated Home Minister Anil Deshmukh here on Sunday.
"The police have booked 156 foreigners for visa rules violations under section 14B of The Foreigners Act and relevant IPC sections. Further investigations are on," he said.
The minister said that all these foreigners had been granted a tourist visa for India but they flouted the norms by visiting the religious meet at Delhi.
The 18 countries from which they came are: Indonesia 37, Kyrgyzstan 19, Myanmar 18, Bangladesh 13, Tanzania 11, Philippines 10, Kazakhstan and Ivory Coast 9 each, Malaysia 8, Togo 6, Djibouti 5, Brunei 4, Russia 2, the US, Benin, Iran, Ghana and South Africa 1 each.
Fifteen offences have been registered by police in Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Amravati, Nanded, Nagpur, Pune, Ahmednagar, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli, he apprised, adding that all of them are currently kept in institutional quarantine.
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