India, Jan. 11 -- In a major crackdown on violations of the Foreigners Act, the Navi Mumbai Police have registered three separate cases against four flat owners in Kharghar and Taloja for allegedly providing accommodation to foreign nationals without completing mandatory government registration, officials said on Friday.

The cases, lodged at Kharghar and Taloja police stations, relate to landlords accused of renting out residential premises to eight foreign nationals, mostly of Nigerian origin, without submitting the mandatory C-Form on the Government of India's official portal. Filing the C-Form is a statutory requirement under the Foreigners Act, 1946 and the Registration of Foreigners Act, 1939.

In the first case at Kharghar police s...