Three teenaged youth, arrested for being Bangladeshinationals, are actually Indian nationals, says the department of Health and Family Welfare, government of West Bengal. The three youths, aged between 17 and 19, were arrested by the Govandi police after the special branch conducted a joint operation with the later. The department of Health and Family Welfare in a letter to MunafHakeem, chairman state minorities commission, stated that the three youngsters were Indian nationals but the police labelled them and arrested as illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. The youth were Bilal Shaikh (19), SaeedulShaikh (19) and RehmandSopiwalShaikh (16), all residents of village Rampur, Kulghaat, Midnapur district in WB. “The three youth belong to a village in WB and can’t speak Hindi. They can communicate only in Bengali. The Mumbai police fixed them in a fabricated case of being Bangladeshis without any inquiry,” H S Janubasar, an officer of the WB department stated in the letter. He stated that the three boys were tourist.
3 ‘BANGALDESHI’ YOUTH JAILED ARE INDIAN CITIZENS
Three teenaged youth, arrested for being Bangladeshinationals, are actually Indian nationals, says the department of Health and Family Welfare, government of West Bengal. The three youths, aged between 17 and 19,
