# Odisha police say 42 Bangladeshi nationals deported from Bhubaneswar and Cuttack 2026-08-05T23:15:33+00:00 | India | Indian Opinion Desk Odisha Police said 42 Bangladeshi nationals allegedly living in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack without authorisation have been deported, India Today reported. Officials said 48 people were identified across the two police districts, with six still held at a state facility in Athagarh pending administrative clearance. The repatriation involved coordination with the Border Security Force, with one batch flown directly to Bangladesh on a special chartered flight and others sent through land transit checkpoints on the border adjoining West Bengal. Of the 32 people identified in Bhubaneswar, a group that included men, women and children, 26 have been sent back over three separate phases, while Cuttack's 16 deportations were carried out across three separate operations. The report's own timeline is inconsistent, referring both to a period from July 2025 to March 2026 and to a separate Cuttack operation in July 2026. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Odisha Police's own figures do not agree with each other: the account cites a July 2025-to-March 2026 window in one place and a separate July 2026 Cuttack operation in another, a discrepancy the report does not resolve, and it gives no detail on how the 48 identified individuals had their status confirmed or what legal review, if any, their cases received. Calling those deported infiltrators is the police's own characterisation, carried here as reported rather than as an independently confirmed legal finding. The six people still held at the Athagarh centre, awaiting final administrative clearances, are the remaining cases on which the figure of 48 identified will settle. ## Coverage - www.indiatoday.in Tags: Border Security Force, Odisha Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/odisha-deports-42-illegal-bangladeshi-migrants-from-bhubaneswar-and-cuttack/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/odisha-deports-42-illegal-bangladeshi-migrants-from-bhubaneswar-and-cuttack/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.