{"id":17428,"date":"2026-06-06T07:43:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/allowed-2-bangladeshis-to-use-his-home-for-money-delhi-hotel-owner-lavkesh-bajaj-under-scanner-for-international-human-trafficking-delhi-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T07:43:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:13:59","slug":"allowed-2-bangladeshis-to-use-his-home-for-money-delhi-hotel-owner-lavkesh-bajaj-under-scanner-for-international-human-trafficking-delhi-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/allowed-2-bangladeshis-to-use-his-home-for-money-delhi-hotel-owner-lavkesh-bajaj-under-scanner-for-international-human-trafficking-delhi-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Allowed 2 Bangladeshis to use his home for money&#8217;: Delhi hotel owner Lavkesh Bajaj under scanner for international human trafficking | Delhi News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131543008,imgsize-57430,width-400,height-225,resizemode-72\/-.jpg\" alt=\"'Allowed 2 Bangladeshis to use his home for money': Delhi hotel owner Lavkesh Bajaj under scanner for international human trafficking\" title=\"Cops probe owner for int\u2019l human trafficking\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Cops probe owner for int\u2019l human trafficking\">Cops probe owner for int\u2019l human trafficking<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/delhi-police\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Delhi Police<\/a> is now investigating Lovkesh Bajaj, whose B&amp;B went up in flames and led to 21 deaths in Hauz Rani, for his suspected involvement in an international human trafficking racket. <!-- -->He likely used medical tourism as a front to smuggle foreign nationals into India illegally, sources said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>Bajaj was arrested and charged in 2025 by Paharganj police after it was found that he facilitated forged documents, including passports and Aadhaar cards, for a Bangladeshi family in lieu of a hefty amount. Special CP Devesh Srivastava confirmed the development. A case was registered at Paharganj police station on Jan 29, 2025 during the drive against illegals.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>Cops suspect that Bajaj was using his home besides his B&amp;Bs to shelter illegal foreigners. Neighbours told cops that they often saw foreigners at his Saket residence.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h4>Bajaj allowed two women to use his residential address for money: Cops<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>There were two Bangladeshi nationals at the centre of that (Paharganj, 2025) case \u2014 Sweety Sarkar and her daughter Pushpo \u2014 who were found to be illegally residing on the third floor of a property in Paharganj,\u201d said a police officer. Both were found in possession of fraudulently obtained Indian documents that had allowed them to blend into the city undetected for an undisclosed period of time.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>Sweety was using aliases like Beauty Hawladar and Johra Khatoon in the documents and Pushpo was using different surnames like Hawaldar and Akhtar.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>Investigators had found that Sweety Sarkar had listed an address in B block, Chhatarpur Enclave, while applying for an Indian passport. The address was traced back to Lovekesh Bajaj.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>During interrogation, Bajaj had revealed that he had allowed the two women to use his residential address in exchange for monetary consideration.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>Police had subsequently arrested Bajaj along with Sweety and Pushpo and a chargesheet was filed before a court. Bajaj and others were sent to two weeks judicial custody and later got out on bail.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/>Central Delhi police have shared the case documents with south district police, who are probing the Hauz Rani fire.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"28\"\/>Police are now working to establish whether Bajaj\u2019s role extended beyond providing a postal address, and whether he served as a local facilitator for a broader racket smuggling foreign nationals into India.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"31\"\/>The cops have sought CCTV footage of the vicinity of his B&amp;B and home.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"33\"\/>An IPDR (internet protocol details records) analysis is being conducted to confirm his links and communications in this regard. \u201cHis phone has been seized and sent for forensic analysis,\u201d an investigator said.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/allowed-2-bangladeshis-to-use-his-home-for-money-hotel-owner-lavkesh-bajaj-under-scanner-for-international-human-trafficking\/articleshow\/131542997.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cops probe owner for int\u2019l human trafficking NEW DELHI: Delhi Police is now investigating Lovkesh Bajaj, whose B&amp;B went up in flames and led to 21 deaths in Hauz Rani, for his suspected involvement in an international human trafficking racket. He likely used medical tourism as a front to smuggle foreign nationals into India illegally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-delhi"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}