Dubai: The Dubai Naturalisation and Residency Department (DNRD) in one day caught 132 persons of various nationalities for violating the federal law for entry and residency of expatriates.

Major General Mohammad Al Merri, Director of DNRD, said the violators, most of them domestic helpers, were arrested during a series of simultaneous inspection campaigns on four houses in Bur Dubai.

The Investigation and Foreigners' Follow up Section had conducted the raid after receiving reliable tip-off about the whereabouts of those violators, he said.