227 Bengali workers confined in Odisha
migrant workers
from Bengal in Jharsuguda in Odisha after being labelled as '
Bangladeshis
'. Meanwhile, two habeas corpus petitions have been filed in the
Calcutta High Court
against the Delhi Police over the illegal detention and deportation of a couple from Murarai in Birbhum, along with their minor son.
"The Calcutta High Court is scheduled to hear the two habeas corpus petitions filed against the Delhi Police over the illegal detention of a couple from Murarai in Birbhum, along with their minor son. The family later came to know that they had been illegally deported to Bangladesh. Under the leadership of @MamataOfficial, we will fight the anti-Bengali actions of
BJP-ruled states
until our last breath," chairman of the Migrant Workers Welfare Board and Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP Samirul Islam posted on X.
Speaking to ET, Islam said 227 migrant workers have been detained by Jharsuguda Sadar and other police stations in Odisha on the grounds that they were Bangladeshis.
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