Maharashtra: Two Bangladeshi women get 1-year imprisonment for illegal stay
A court in Maharashtra's Thane district has awarded one-year rigorous imprisonment to two Bangladeshi women for staying in India without valid travel documents. Assistant Sessions Judge H B Shelke also slapped a fine of Rs. 5,000 each on the convicts Mumtaz Rasul Shaikh (45) and Munira Akhtar Husein (30) of Bangladesh's Nodaile district. They resided in slum colonies and worked as laborers.
The women did not have any valid travel documents
The duo was convicted under relevant sections of the Passport (Entry into India) Rules 1950. Sleuths of the Anti-Human Trafficking Cell had apprehended the women from Mira Road on July 15, 2017, Additional Public Prosecutor Ujjwala Moholkar told the court. They didn't possess any valid travel documents, the court was told. The judge convicted the two women and pronounced its sentence on March 28.
