Bikaner: The Rajasthan Police Intelligence Unit on Friday arrested a Nigerian man and woman in Srakaranpur, a city near the international border adjacent to the Sriganganagar District, for allegedly living in the country illegally and had several identity documents.
SP Anand Sharma told TII that the police received a tip-off of the state intelligence unit that the duo illegally roamed around a limited area near the international border after the local police were ordered to track them.
“During the search, foreign nationals, men were identified as Umoru Nelson (41) and women as ESE-Dekimo Hope Sayangume (37) seen in Kaminpura Tiraha on Jalan Srianganganagar-Srakaranpur in the border area and was asked to show their journey.
Documents and Permissions are needed to visit limited border areas but they cannot do it, “police said.
They allegedly rejected the police process and refused to work together when asked about their travel identities and documents.
Deesekha Kamra, ASP, (CID, Intelligence) told TII that security and intelligence institutions were at a high warning after instructions issued by the DGP Intelligence Umhra in the view of the Republican Day.
Foreigners who were arrested were taken to the cid foreign registration office, the zone office to be questioned.
The police claimed that during preliminary interrogation, the Duo accepted that they were traveling without valid documents.
During the interrogation, Umoru Nelson revealed that he came to India in 2011 at a medical visa for three months.
He did not return after the end of his visa in 2015, a case of a fake currency was registered against him at the Nasirabad Ajmer police station.
For this he was sentenced to seven years and was fine.
He was released from Jaipur in prison in 2021.
Hopefully Sukaume Acedekimo came to India on March 1, 2016, at a three-month medical visa, but did not return to Nigeria even after the end of the Visa period.
Both foreign nationals have different documents regarding names, identity and nationality.
Umoru Nelson holds the passport of the Republic of Nigeria with the same name and the Republic of the South African passport under the name Motshep Lagosi Thopan.
Likewise, Hope Sayangume held a passport of the Republic of Nigeria with the same name and the Republic of Nigerian Republican ID card in the name of Comey Ashanti.
Sho from the Police Station of the Gopal Singh Nathawawa Gopal, “The two of them came to guarantee the cheating case accused of Abraham National Bahkeyoko, who was arrested on August 16 last year in the Her farewhpur for Online Fraud Rs 80 Lakh.
He is currently nesting in the prison Shrukaranpur.
Both are known to be accusing Abraham and came to Srakaranpur to meet him and help him become a guarantee “.