Overview
- Officials said 51 people were confirmed as illegal residents after 1,768 document checks, with inquiries for 50 more underway.
- Two individuals accused of securing Indian passports with forged documents have been booked and remanded to judicial custody.
- Detections were concentrated in Khurda/Bhubaneswar (24), Cuttack (15), Ganjam (6), Kandhamal (3) and Koraput (1).
- The state has formed a dedicated task committee, directed district police to intensify surveillance and field inspections, and deployed a mobile app for real-time checks.
- Odisha operates 18 district-level holding centres and two state-level detention facilities, while an earlier Assembly reply cited 3,740 suspected cases under consideration, notably in Kendrapara and Jagatsinghpur.