The Aam Aadmi Party has expressed displeasure over the delay in cracking foreigners staying illegally in Tirupur even though six Nigerians were arrested recently.

Petition to CM

S. Sundarapandian, who is the AAP state spokesperson and also district convener, said the party had given a petition to the Chief Minister’s office more than a month back in which it complained about the huge presence of foreign nationals here.

“Upon the petition got forwarded to the city police here for action, the officials here have stated through media that crackdown will begin from January 1 onwards even though it should have been a continuing process not a date-bound action,” he said.

Meanwhile, the arrests of six Nigerians recently revealed that as many as four of them were holding fake passports and visas, and the remaining two had no valid documents.

All of them were driving the motorcycles without valid license or registration certificates.

The arrested Ohaeme Chinomye Paulinus (25), Anibyunwh Paulinas Abuchi (38), O. Michel (27), Sunday Mathew (38), Ernest Anny (42), and C. Odidika (41), were remanded under Foreigners Act and under different sections of Indian Penal Code.