6 from Birbhum nabbed by Delhi cops, pushed into B'desh: Pleas in HC

Time of India

09-07-2025

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Kolkata: Six Birbhum residents, including three minors, who worked as ragpickers in Delhi, were labelled 'Bangladeshi' and nabbed by police on June 18 and pushed into Bangladesh by BSF on June 26, two habeas corpus petitions filed in Calcutta High Court alleged.
HC was likely to take up the petitions on Friday, Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP and state migrant workers' welfare board chairperson Samirul Islam said.
The pleas said two families of migrant workers were picked up by Delhi Police during an "identity verification drive" among the Bengali-speaking population. Among the detained, Sweety Bibi and her two minor sons as well as Danish Sheikh, his wife Sunali Khatun and their five-year-old son were sent to Bangladesh, Islam alleged.
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Pintu Sheikh of Murarai Nagarik Mancha, a local Birbhum citizens' forum, said Sunali and Danish were their neighbours. "Sunali's sister informed us of what had happened. On July 6, I took her father Bhodu Sk to Paikar police station and lodged a missing diary," he said.
"Sunali is now four months pregnant. It is terrible that their five-year-old son is also going through these traumatic events, only because they speak Bengali," Pintu added.
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Sunali's sister, Roshni Bibi, who also works as a ragpicker in Delhi, said: "From June 18 to June 22, they were kept in Delhi's Katju Nagar police station. I met her there. My sister later called me from Bangladesh and said some people had given her shelter on seeing that she was pregnant."
The petition said Sweety's husband, Azizul Dewan, went missing four years ago, so she supported the family, including her aged and ailing parents.
The HC petitions stated that all six were Indian citizens and permanent residents of Paikar, and were unlawfully detained by Delhi Police in an extrajudicial manner. The petitions said they had valid Indian documents; proof of their parents' citizenship was also submitted in court.
The petitions said the six were deprived of their liberty and had their human rights violated, because they were detained and pushed out of the country for speaking their mother tongue, undermining the pluralistic ethos of India.