‘She had stepped out to buy food’: Another Bengali woman forcibly pushed to Bangladesh from Mumbai (scroll.in)

The police acted against Sahida Fakir despite her family submitting her birth and school certificates, her voter ID card and a land title, her husband said.

'Fakir visited the police station with his wife’s identity documents, including her birth certificate. “The police said that was not enough. They asked for the birth certificates of Sahida’s parents,” Fakir said. “But in their time, no one got birth certificates.”' #India scroll.in/article/1094...

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“Sahida’s illegal detention, without giving her reasons for her arrest, without producing her before a magistrate, and despite overwhelming documentary evidence establishing her Indian citizenship, demonstrates a disturbing pattern of arbitrary action against vulnerable citizens.”