MUMBAI: Five years after a 30-year-old man from Mazgaon was arrested on charges of being an illegal immigrant from Bangladesh, a magistrate’s court this week acquitted him after it found his birth certificate showed he was an Indian citizen.
The police had raided a shop in Dongri and booked the man in 2016 after receiving “secret information” that Bangladeshi nationals were residing there illegally. “I have arrived at the conclusion that prosecution utterly failed to prove that accused being Bangladeshi infiltrator had entered into India without having valid document of travel through unauthorised route and stayed here,” the court said.
Sasikala nears jail term end The authorities of Bangalore central jail have not been forthcoming with any information after she raised objections.
V.K. Sasikala,close associate of former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa, is nearing the completion of her fouryear jail term in a disproportionate assets case.
Sasikala has been serving the sentence with her sisterinlaw J. Ilavarasi and nephew V.N. Sudhakaran, who too would complete their fouryear jail terms around the same time.
Although there is no offi¬cial confirmation on the date of her release, sources said Sasikala was expected to com¬plete her term on January 27. But it is not known if Ilavarasi and Sudhakaran would also walk free on the same day.