MANGALURU, 12 June, 2021 (TON): On Friday, the city crime branch police arrested 38 illegal Sri Lankan immigrants.
Six local persons have also been arrested on charges of sheltering the illegal immigrants.
According to Mangaluru police commissioner N. Shashi Kumar, the illegal immigrants had allegedly been promised jobs in Canada, before being trafficked to India.
He further said, after shipping them from Sri Lanka to Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu on 17 March, the traffickers had shifted the immigrants to Karnataka, to evade heightened scrutiny during the Tamil Nadu assembly polls.
In Mangaluru, the illegal immigrants had been claiming to be daily wage workers and fishermen from Tamil Nadu.
The police commissioner said that a tip off from Tamil Nadu police, had led to the raids.
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