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Bengali-speaking Muslims in India fear detention, deportation

Mohammad Shamsu, a Bengali-speaking Muslim migrant, works as a ragpicker in India's capital, New Delhi. He lives in fear of deportation and detention amid the ongoing crackdown against Bengali Muslim migrants. (Photo by Quratulain Rehbar) QURATULAIN REHBAR NEW DELHI -- It has been nearly a month since Sonali Khatun, four months pregnant, along with her husband, were detained by Delhi police and dumped at the Bangladesh border on June 26. "First, the police told her to bring her children if she wanted her husband back [from a police station where he was detained]. She went, showed them their documents to prove they're Indians, but the police didn't care," Roshni Bibi, her cousin, who lives in New Delhi, told Nikkei Asia.