 DUBAI: Several Indians, including 26 women, have been arrested
during raids at a residential area in Dubai for staying allegedly
without proper documents, officials said on Saturday.The Indian
Consulate said the 26 women, many of whom from Kerala, did not
have passports or other travel documents and were lodged in the
Dubai Immigration premises at Al Quoz area.
"We have asked for more information from the police and if they
ask for outpasses we will provide them so that they can be sent
home," an official with the Indian Consulate said.
Meanwhile, official sources said "several" Indian men have also
been arrested in the raids conducted recently.
Recruitment agents often keep passports of hapless women who
then become illegal immigrants in the eye of the law in Dubai.
There had been incidents of girls running away from the
clutches of unscrupulous agents and getting home with the help of
the Indian consulate. (PTI) |
JAN
10: An Indian-American Kishan Singh, 33, from Lanham in Maryland, has
been jailed for 18 months after running a
website offering illegal copies of a range of business
software. The federal judge in Alexandria, Va., also ordered the
forfeit of the computer equipment used in the crime.
