VARANASI: At least 14 Bangladeshis and two Indians were taken under custody by Jaunpur police as after attending

event in Delhi they reached Jaunpur and stayed in a house taken on rent by a cleric in Saraikhwaja area without informing police.

Inspector Saraikhwaja Satya Prakash Singh said that all these persons were booked under appropriate sections of epidemic disease act, passport act and foreigners act. After taking them under custody police kept all of them in a shelter house where team of doctors was called to examine them, he added.

On being alerted by the central intelligence agencies Jaunpur cops swung into action on Tuesday afternoon when they raided a house in Lal Darwaja locality under the limits of Saraikhwaja police station.

Singh said that 14 Bangladeshis identified as Haji Hafijurrehman Ima, Rafikul Islam,

, Ismail, Nuruddin Sahil, Aminul Islam, Mahboob Rehman,

, Roshan Ahmad, Alameen, AK Faizul Haq, Aquib Hassan Mahboob, Firdaus and Saiful Islam were caught from there. Yasin Ansari of Jharkhand and Mohd Abul Motalib of West Bengal, who were also accompanying them were also held, he added.

Police said that the house in which they were staying had been taken on rent for them by a cleric Maulana Muzeeb Aqil of Dehri area under the limits of Kerakat police station. His role in this episode is also being investigated as when this group of 16 including 14 Bangladeshis returned from Delhi after attending Tabhligi Jamaat event, he arranged accommodation for all of them without reporting police.