7-year ban on Indian restaurant owner for hiring illegal workers in UK

The owner of an Indian restaurant and takeaway in the UK has been banned as a company director until 2031 for hiring three illegal workers from Bangladesh without conducting right-to-work checks.

Ikbal Hussain, 51, hired the workers, all in their forties, at the Taste of Raj on High Street, Hertfordshire, before the restaurant was



raided by immigration enforcement officials in March 2020.

A resident of Enfield, Hussain was the sole director of the restaurant, trading under the company name of Tender Love Ltd, since June 2014.

The workers told investigators they had worked at the restaurant for between four days and up to two months.