# West Bengal orders holding centres for Bangladeshis, Rohingyas 2026-08-16T16:56:59+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet The West Bengal government has directed all districts to set up 'holding centres' to detain suspected Bangladeshi nationals and Rohingya immigrants for up to 30 days pending citizenship verification and deportation. The order, issued by Nabanna, follows Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari's recent announcement to strictly enforce central guidelines on illegal immigration. The directive covers newly detained suspects and foreign nationals released from prisons whose deportation is underway. Instructions have gone to the Director General of Police, district magistrates, and police commissioners, including Kolkata. The move aligns with a May 2, 2025, Union Home Ministry advisory allowing detention for 30 days during document verification. The state said identified illegal immigrants will have biometric data uploaded to a central portal before being handed to the Border Security Force for deportation and blacklisted from re-entering India. The BJP-led government calls this a 'detect, delete and deport' policy. District-level special task forces will be formed to identify suspected undocumented migrants. ## Coverage - millenniumpost.in This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Border Security Force, Nabanna, Suvendu Adhikari, Union Home Ministry, West Bengal government Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/west-bengal-orders-holding-centres-for-bangladeshis-rohingyas/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/west-bengal-orders-holding-centres-for-bangladeshis-rohingyas/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/