Families allege that the BSF illegally pushed 14 Bengali-speaking Muslim Indian citizens, including children and the elderly, from Odisha into Bangladesh despite valid documents.
Indian authorities have forcibly expelled hundreds of ethnic Bengali Muslims—many of them Indian citizens from border states—to Bangladesh in recent weeks without due process, labeling them “illegal immigrants,” Human Rights Watch alleged on Wednesday.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the deportation of a Muslim woman declared a “foreigner” by the Foreigners Tribunal, a decision upheld by the Gauhati High Court in February 2025, despite her submission of documentary evidence.
The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has ordered India’s Union Ministry of Home Affairs to facilitate the return of a 63-year-old woman, Rakshanda Rashid, who was deported to Pakistan following the Pahalgam attack.
Saikia, in a letter to External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, alleged that the state’s actions appear to disproportionately target Muslim communities, undermining India’s secular fabric.
On a warm April morning in a modest tin-roofed shed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora, 33-year-old Zahida Begum sat weeping softly. Begum clutched her...