Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Topic: Deportation

BSF illegally pushed 14 Bengali-speaking Muslims from Odisha into Bangladesh, families allege

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.

Hundreds of Muslims unlawfully expelled to Bangladesh by India, says Human Rights Watch

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.

SC stays deportation of Muslim woman declared ‘foreigner’ in Assam despite documentary evidence

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.

J&K High Court orders Union govt to bring back 63-year-old woman deported to Pakistan after Pahalgam attack

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.

“Targeting Muslim communities,” Assam Opposition leader raises concern about govt ‘pushing back’ undocumented migrants

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.

“What will we do?” ask Zahida’s children, as she’s served notice to leave India after 15 years in Kashmir

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...