Fifteen years ago, he came to India in search of work, but what this 62-year-old Bangladeshi did not know was that this decision would eventually leave him penniless. Left with no money to even return home, Jahangir Alam Yasin Sheikh decided to get himself deported.

He hatched a plan and revealed his identity to a police informer, who tipped off the cops. Cuffe Parade ATC officers nabbed him from the Backbay bus depot. He was produced in court and later remanded to judicial custody for seven days.