An illegal worker was arrested after immigration officers swooped on a curry house.

Border Force officers visited Badsha Indian Cuisine in West Cross, Tenterden, on Wednesday.

They discovered one employee working illegally. He was arrested and later bailed.

The restaurant was also issued with a right-to-work civil penalty notification.

The law states offenders can be sent to jail for five years and have to pay an unlimited fine if found guilty of employing someone they knew or had reasonable cause to believe did not have the right to work in the UK.

Employers can also be penalised £60,000 per worker if someone does not have the right to work and they did not do the correct checks, or do them properly.

A Home Office spokesperson said: “We are determined to clamp down both on illegal working and the exploitation of illegal workers.

“Organised Immigration Crime is a multi-million-pound industry, which stretches from the trafficking routes thousands of miles away through which people are brought to our country to the high streets across Britain where many of those people end up working illegally.

“As part of our Plan for Change, this government is taking action against that criminal industry at every level, including stepping up our raids on restaurants, car washes, nail bars, construction sites, and other businesses where illegal working is taking place, and increasing our arrests of illegal workers and the people who employ them.”

KentOnline has made attempts to contact Badsha Indian Cuisine for comment.

The venue’s website describes it as “the best Indian restaurant and takeaway in West Cross”.