Hyderabad, Feb. 22: Police have stepped up surveillance on foreign students in the city, particularly Nigerians as some of them have been involved in fake currency, visas and passports crimes. Few months ago, the Central Crime Station (CCS) came across a case where Nigerian youth cheated a person as they gave him blank papers while they promised him counterfeit US dollars.
In October last year, the Chadarghat police arrested two Nigerians in an online cheating case in which they fraudulently took Rs 38 lakh from their victims. Last year, an international gang of Nigerians involved in credit card frauds was busted by the police. Task Force sleuths have also come across counterfeit currency cases involving Nigerians.
The Special Branch is keeping an eye on the Nigerians as some of them regularly frequently change their residence but do not update that information with the police, a senior official said. Some of the Nigerians who are overstaying in the city had gone "missing", he added.
Nigerians students who come to the city are mostly put up in areas like Mehdipatnam, Tolichowki, Sainikpuri, Mahindra Hills and Padmaraonagar. In light of the recent bomb blasts and terror threat looming large over the city, police is not willing to take any chances and are maintaining vigil over all foreign nationals.
More than 1,300 foreign students are registered in the Osmania University while another 350 are studying in Nizam College. They are of Nigeria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Palestine, Uganda and Iran nationals.
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