India, Feb. 14 -- Mumbai's new mayor Ritu Tawde is cracking down on illegal Bangladeshis in Mumbai, saying the civic health department must act against 237 individuals who were found to be using forged Indian birth certificates so that they could live and work in the city. Tawde said action must be taken against them within a month, or else she would propose the suspension of civic officials for alleged negligence.

She announced this in a meeting with civic health officials on Friday, as part of the BJP's campaign to identify and act against illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. Tawde said that although health officials had deleted the birth certificates of these 237 individuals from the BMC's portal, they were continuing to use these forg...