Owaisi blasts alleged detention of Bengali-speaking Muslims, cites 'police atrocities
Owaisi blasts alleged detention of Bengali-speaking Muslims, cites 'police atrocities'
M.U.H
26/07/202531
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday condemned the alleged detention of Bengali-speaking Muslim citizens across the country.
The Hyderabad MP said those people were being targeted as they were not in a position to challenge the “police atrocities”.
Those being labelled as illegal immigrants are the “poorest of the poor", mostly slum-dwellers, and work as domestic workers and rag-pickers, he said, and alleged that several Indian citizens are reportedly being pushed into Bangladesh at gunpoint.
"Police in different parts of India have been illegally detaining Bengali-speaking Muslim citizens and accusing them of being Bangladeshi. There have been disturbing reports of Indian citizens being pushed into Bangladesh at gunpoint,” the AIMIM leader said in a post on X.
“The government acts strong with the weak, and weak with the strong,” he alleged.
Terming the alleged detention of Bengali-speaking Muslims as “illegal”, Owaisi said police do not have the power to detain people just because they speak a particular language.
In his post, Owaisi also shared an order of the Office of District Magistrate in Gurugram, where it has been mentioned that the state government have made a standard operating procedure (SOP) to deport Bangladeshi citizens and Rohingyas.
Last week, eight Bangladeshi nationals were detained in Gurugram as part of an ongoing drive to identify illegal immigrants. They were later released.
It’s alleged that these people were taken to different detention or holding centres and asked to produce documents such as Aadhar Card, voter ID card, ration cards, and PAN cards, etc to prove their citizenship.
CPI-ML general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya led a delegation of civil society activists to meet these people in Gurugram on Saturday.
The team visited Jai Hind Camp in south Delhi's Vasant Kunj before proceeding to Gurugram.
Bhattacharya said he found the residents of the camp had been living without electricity for over two weeks, after their connection was cut amid allegations of arriving in the country illegally from Bangladesh.
Even though the detainees were released from Gurugram camps, police gave vague and unsatisfactory answers about the methods used for identifying these "foreigners," he said.
