The Karnataka High Court has directed the state government to form district-level committees within three months to address illegal immigration and submit a compliance report to the court registry, according to an order issued by a single-judge bench led by Justice M. Nagaprasanna.
The direction came while the court quashed two first information reports registered against T. Nagendrappa, who had informed Bengaluru police about six people he described as Bangladeshi nationals living near the DS Max apartment complex in the city’s Bellandur area without passports or visas.
The court said the committees must be constituted within three months from the date the government receives a copy of the order. It also directed the state to submit a report detailing compliance with the instruction to the High Court registry.
According to the report, Nagendrappa had approached Bellandur police on July 22, 2026, with information about the six people. Police subsequently took the individuals to the Foreigners Regional Registration Office, or FRRO, which handles registration-related matters concerning foreign nationals.
About 15 minutes later, a Bangladeshi woman filed a complaint against Nagendrappa alleging assault. Based on that complaint, police registered a criminal case under Sections 74, 79, 115(2), 126(2), 351(2), 351(3) and 352 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. A separate complaint was also registered at the Varthur police station.
The High Court’s order addressed the criminal proceedings against Nagendrappa and quashed the two FIRs. The court’s direction on district-level committees places the issue within a formal administrative framework extending beyond an individual police complaint or a single locality in Bengaluru.
The order also brings together two separate aspects of urban administration: the handling of information about foreign nationals residing in city neighbourhoods and the police response to complaints arising from such reporting. In the Bengaluru case, the individuals were taken to the FRRO after the complaint was made, while the person who supplied the information subsequently faced criminal proceedings that the High Court has now set aside.
The court has not, in the supplied report, provided details of the proposed committees’ membership, powers, reporting structure or the departments that will participate in them. The order’s immediate administrative requirement is that the state constitute the panels within the specified three-month period and report compliance to the registry.
The case highlights the role of district-level coordination in matters that involve local police stations, foreigner registration authorities and the state government. It also places a formal deadline on the government to establish the committees rather than leaving the matter to individual police responses.
The next stated milestone is the formation of the district-level committees within three months of the government receiving the High Court order, followed by submission of an implementation report to the court registry.
