Coimbatore: The Tirupur rural police arrested a 22-year-old Sudanese national on Friday for staying illegally in India.
The arrested person was identified as Mambo alias Mohammed Almamoon Khalid, son of Khalid Mohammed Ali of Khartoum city in Sudan.
Preliminary inquiry revealed that he came to Eachanari in Coimbatore in 2018.
Though his tourist visa expired in 2019, he was staying in a rented house at Eachanari.
Due to the pandemic, Mambo was unemployed and had visited Erode on a motorcycle on Friday looking for job.
When he was returning to Coimbatore, he ran out of petrol and approached villagers at Kanakkampalayan for help.
They alerted the Perumanallur police, who arrested him.
He was booked under sections of the Foreigners Act, 1946, remanded in judicial custody and was lodged in the Puzhal Central Prison in Chennai.TNN
Sudanese national arrested
