{"id":13066,"date":"2026-11-09T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/three-nigerians-arrested-in-india-over-invalid-immigration-papers\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T11:00:44","slug":"three-nigerians-arrested-in-india-over-invalid-immigration-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/three-nigerians-arrested-in-india-over-invalid-immigration-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Nigerians arrested in India over invalid immigration papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"50.10989010989\">\n<p>Three Nigerians have been arrested in Delhi, India, for allegedly staying in the country without valid immigration documents.<\/p>\n<p>The Times of India reported on Sunday that the Delhi Police arrested the men for \u201callegedly staying in India without valid documents\u201d and subsequently transferred them to a detention centre.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests were made on October 31 during a \u201cverification drive in southwest Delhi\u2019s Dwarka\u201d, according to the report, which cited officials.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The police identified the men as Bartholomew Uwaebuka Iloegbunem, Konan Okocha, also known as Konan Brice Kousaai, and Ndubuisi Charles Nwabufor.<\/p>\n<p>The three Nigerians reportedly \u201cfailed to produce documents authorising their stay in the country\u201d when they were questioned by the police.<\/p>\n<p>Following their arrest, they were \u201cproduced before the foreigners regional registration office\u201d and later transferred to the Sewa Sadan detention centre in Lampur, the report said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#52263a3737363b263d201222273c313a3c357c313d3f\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"7c08141919181508130e3c0c09121f14121b521f1311\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Nigerians have been arrested in Delhi, India, for allegedly staying in the country without valid immigration documents. The Times of India reported on Sunday that the Delhi Police arrested&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}