Delhi Police is currently investigating against a hotel owner Lavkesh Bajaj. The police suspect that Lavkesh Bajaj is associated with a big group, the International Human Trafficking Racket, which wrongly brings and hides foreigners in the country. This matter came to light when a fire broke out in a hotel owned by Lavkesh Bajaj in Hauz Rani area of South Delhi, in which 21 people lost their lives. After this accident, when the police started investigation, an old record of Lavkesh Bajaj came to light. Police have found out that he used to keep Bangladeshi people in India illegally in the name of medical tourism.
A case was registered at Paharganj police station on 29 January 2025. At that time the police had launched a campaign to catch foreign nationals living illegally. During investigation, the police came to know that Lavkesh Bajaj had made fake papers of a Bangladeshi family to keep them hidden in India. Lavkesh had taken a lot of money and got fake passports and fake Aadhar cards prepared for these Bangladeshi people so that they could live here easily. Special CP Devesh Srivastava has also confirmed this old case and the ongoing investigation.
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Bangladeshi women arrested
Two foreign women were caught in that old case. The name of one of them was Sweety Sarkar and the other was her daughter whose name was Pushpo. When the police raided the third floor of a house, both of them were living there without any proper documents. The Indian papers found from him were completely fake. With the help of these fake documents, both of them were living secretly in the city.
To prove themselves as Indians, both these women had used many fake names. Mother Sweety Sarkar had used names like ‘Beauty Havaladar’ and ‘Johra Khatoon’ in her fake documents. At the same time, his daughter Pushpo had also used different surnames to hide her identity in which she had written ‘Havaladar’ and ‘Akhtar’ in front of her name.
give home address
When the police checked Sweety Sarkar’s Indian passport form, they found an address of B-Block, Chhatarpur Enclave written in it. When the police reached that address to investigate, they found out that the house belonged to Lavkesh Bajaj. After this, when the police caught Lavkesh Bajaj and interrogated him, he confessed to his crime. Lavkesh told that he had allowed those two Bangladeshi women to use his home address only out of greed for money. Apart from this, the neighbors of Lavkesh living in Saket also told the police that they often saw foreigners coming and going to his house.
After this revelation, Delhi Police arrested hotel owner Lavkesh Bajaj Sweety Sarkar and his daughter Pushpo. The police investigated the matter and also submitted the charge sheet in the court. After the arrest, the court sent Lavkesh Bajaj and the other accused to jail for two weeks. However, after some time they all came out of jail on bail.
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hotel accident investigation
Now that 21 people have died in the fire in Hauz Rani Hotel, the Central Delhi Police has handed over all the papers of this old Bangladeshi case of Lavkesh Bajaj to the South District Police. South District Police is currently investigating the fire incident. The police is now investigating whether Lavkesh Bajaj’s job was only to give his home address to these foreigners or whether he was a helper of some big gang that was illegally bringing foreigners into India.
To gather evidence against Lavkesh Bajaj, the police has asked for footage from all the CCTV cameras around his house and hotel. Along with this, Lavkesh Bajaj’s phone has also been confiscated by the police and it has been sent for forensic investigation. Police are also currently investigating the Internet Protocol Detail Record (IPDR) of Lavkesh Bajaj to find out which suspicious people or foreign smugglers he was in contact with through internet and social media.
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