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AJMER: A day after the arrest of a Rohingya man, Police on Saturday arrested yet another Myanmar refugee from Dargah area in Ajmer city.

The migrant, holder of United Nation refugee card, was arrested from Ajmer dargah region and had been living in the city for past seven years.

While the police have arrested 45-year-old Wali, his wife has been detained and her nationality is being verified. They were residing in Noor colony of Anderkot at Dargah Bazaar in Ajmer. The couple has six children, all of whom were born in India. The couple, like 30-year-old Aman Ullah who was arrested on Friday, were in possession of government identification cards including Aadhaar and PAN. Police are currently looking into the status of their children.

Aadhaar cards of both Wali and Aman Ullah were found to be linked with their bank accounts and other programmes of the government. They were identified only because they had not destroyed their refugee registration card which they got at 2009 UN refugee camp in New Delhi. Police suspect more such people are residing in the region.

Getting Aadhaar card is not a big issue even for illegal immigrants in India. Central government had denied refuge to Rohingyas from Myanmar and Bangladesh but they are getting legal Aadhaar card as well as PAN card, ration card and even driving licence in Ajmer.

In fact, these Rohingyas have not even been identified by IB or police department. The police came to know about Aman Ullah only after his wife following a domestic conflict tipped the police about him being a refugee.

According to police, Wali came to India by illegally crossing the Bangladesh border to Kolkata. He then got a refugee card made in New Delhi in 2009. Then he went to Jammu & Kashmir. In 2010, he shifted to Ajmer. Here he started working with khadims and with local aid managed to get Aadhaar card, PAN card and other documents.

Police official sources said that a combing operation has been started in the dargah region to identify Rohingyas. Their numbers could be in hundreds, sources added.

Moreover, police are also trying to figure out how they managed to get Aadhaar card.

