The AAP slammed the move, calling it "death of democracy" and alleging that the poll board had caved in to pressure from the government.
The Indian Embassy in Ukraine announced the news on Wednesday, saying that the students, who had been stranded at Sumy State University in northeast Ukraine, had taken a special train from Lviv to Poland's western border.
The investigation into alleged hawala transactions by Yashwant Jadhav, chairman of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) standing committee, led to the search of Kanal, according to a tax official.