Detention centre in Bengaluru for foreigners operational soon

October 17, 2019 18:44

Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Thursday said the detention centre for foreign nationals coming up on the city's outskirts, will be operationalised soon. The minister also said the Bengaluru-specific anti-terrorist squad probably will be operational in November first week. "There is a detention centre ready near Nelamagala, it needs to operationalised, we have discussed it and there will be no further delay in operationalising it," Bommai said.

Speaking to reporters, he said the detention centre will be for foreign nationals involved in illegal activities, until they are deported. Stating that there is already an ATS for Karnataka, theminister said, "our officers have been recommending for Bengaluru-specific ATS for a long time keeping in mind the volume of population, the influx, also intelligence and NIA inputs."

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