Held in Mumbai, deported by BSF, Bengal couple returns dwelling from Bangladesh
Kolkata: The West Bengal police have helped a pair from the state to return dwelling days after they have been declared unlawful Bangladeshi immigrants by Maharashtra police and deported to the neighbouring nation by the Border Safety Power (BSF), police officers mentioned.
“Fazal Mondal, a migrant employee, and his spouse Taslima have been launched by the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Monday. We took them dwelling safely,” Ganesh Bain, officer-in-charge of North 24 Parganas district’s Bagdah police station, informed HT.
Fazal Mondal, a resident of Hariharpur village in Bagdah, went to Karnataka in 2024 together with his spouse in quest of livelihood and the couple moved to the Naya Nagar space in Mumbai 5 months in the past. They have been arrested on June 10 and deported to Bangladesh on June 14, Mondal’s father Tahajul Mondal informed the media on Tuesday.
Tahajul Mondal mentioned: “My son and daughter-in-law have been detained at Naya Nagar police station on June 10 and declared unlawful Bangladeshi immigrants though they carried paperwork akin to Aadhar and PAN playing cards. I contacted the Maharashtra police and despatched copies of extra paperwork, together with a certificates the well being division issued after my son was administered polio vaccine when he was a toddler.”
“They have been arrested solely as a result of they converse Bengali which is our mom tongue. Can’t folks converse their mom tongue?” he mentioned.
“On June 14, a person claiming to be a BGB official referred to as us up and mentioned my son and his spouse had been deported and we should always search assist from our native administration to get them again. We instantly knowledgeable the police and sought assist from native Trinamool Congress leaders as effectively,” Mondal added.
BSF didn’t touch upon the couple.
The couple have been launched by BGB a day after three migrant employees from Murshidabad district and two from East Burdwan district managed to return to India via the Mekhliganj border outpost in north Bengal’s Cooch Behar district. These males have been held by Mumbai police on June 12 and handed over to BSF, which deported them on June 14. They, too, claimed that they have been arrested after they confirmed paperwork akin to Aadhar and PAN playing cards.
After these 5 males have been introduced again to India on Monday, HT tried to get official feedback from BSF’s South Bengal Frontier and the North Bengal Frontier headquarters. Emails and reminder e-mails have been despatched however there was no response.
The Mira-Bhayander Vasai-Virar (MBVV) police denied allegations that Indian nationals have been pushed to Bangladesh. “After the arrest of an unlawful Bangladeshi nationwide for attacking actor Saif Ali Khan, that they had acquired orders from the Residence division to conduct a drive in opposition to unlawful immigrants staying within the area. Primarily based on these orders, the police had performed a combing operation, recognized and detained a number of unlawful immigrants from the area up to now three months,” mentioned Prakash Gaikwad, deputy commissioner of police, Mira Street.
In the meantime, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee attacked the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) and the Centre over this subject whereas addressing the state legislative meeting on Monday.
She accused the BJP of launching a “witch-hunt” in opposition to Bengali-speaking Indian residents in states dominated by the them and labelling these folks as Bangladeshi with out bearing in mind legitimate paperwork.
(With enter from Kanchan V. Chaudhari)
