Indian police have detained more than 150 Rohingya.

Indian police have detained more than 150 Rohingya.refugees found living illegally in the northern territory of Jammu and Kashmir, and begun deporting them to Myanmar, two officials said.

Breaking: 24 more #Rohingya intruders arrested, sent to detention centre at Jammu's Hiranagar. They were arrested from Teli Basti in Jammu's Baribrahmana. On Sunday, Police sent 168 Rohingya Muslims to Hiranagar detention centre.

Dozens of Rohingya, a Muslim minority population, are now in a makeshift holding center at Jammu's Hira Nagar jail. They were identified after local authorities conducted biometric and other tests on hundreds of people to verify their identities."The drive is part of an exercise to trace foreigners living in Jammu without valid documents,"