Dozens of Rohingya are in a makeshift holding center at Gemma's here on a guard jail after local authorities conducted biometric and other tests to verify their identities.

Rohingyas living in the region said they were concerned about the weekends, detentions and the threat of deportation.

The police took some Rohingyas in their vehicle.

Why did the police take them?

What are they doing to them?

What is happening?

We don't have any information about them.

We are facing a lot of problems and the families of the detained or crying.

One Indian official, who declined to be named said quote that drive is part of an exercise to trace foreigners living in Jammu without valid documents.

The Hindu nationalist government, which administers the region, regards the Rohingya, who are Muslim as illegal aliens and a security risk.

The government has ordered thousands of them living in scattered settlements, be identified and repatriated.

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya were forced to flee the Buddhist majority homeland after a crackdown by Myanmar's military in 2000 and 17.

Myanmar denies accusations of genocide and says the army was fighting a legitimate counterinsurgency campaign.

India rejects the United Nations position that deporting the Rohingya violates the principle of non reform in which prevent countries from sending refugees back to a place where they face danger.