Indian police raid on Delhi immigrants shows blatant equality

In Gurugram, a sophisticated suburb stands directly outside Delhi, with sparkling SUVs, asking for future skyscrapers and elegant apartments in a flagrant contradiction with nearby mosquito swarms, garbage piles, and waxed cloth.

Inside some of the richest in the walled vehicles in India, while in the poor neighborhoods near the poor migrant workers who live – most of them are home assistants, garbage and daily workers – who continue to rich.

Last month, the local authorities collected hundreds of these workers, most of whom say Muslims talk about Bengali from the Western Bengal state in India, in “verification” of illegal Bangladeshine immigrants.

The suspects were detained and detained in “contract centers”, where they were asked to provide documents to prove their nationality. Many claim that they were beaten and abused by the police during the operation. Police officials deny these allegations.

“I had identity cards and national identity cards, but they told me they were fake. I spent six days I don’t know my destiny before my finally released,” said Atheer Sheikh, a worker daily, who lived in the city for 15 years.

This procedure has left an irreplaceable scars on the social fabric of the city, which is proud of its global culture. Hundreds of workers fled overnight – abandoning jobs and homes, and in some cases, even families in their calf to escape.

Mr. Sheikh said: “I still do not understand why they suddenly came after me.” Behind him, his wife was hasty on their property – torn clothes, old tools and textbooks – in flimsy boxes.

“Was this because of my language or religious, or because I am poor?” Mr. Sheikh continued, his face is hard with anger. “Why were the inhabitants of the wealthy Bengaliya to be steadfast?”

Police in Gorgram denies targeting any specific society. “Religion nor the medicine has the class with any relationship with the drive,” said Sandep Kumar, Public Relations Officer at the BBC.

He added that among the 250 people who picked up, only 10 illegal immigrants have been identified and they will be already deported.

“Anyone else was released. No one was abused in the centers. We were completely fair and objective.”

Meanwhile, fear is felt on the other side of the city as well.

With no workers left, piles of garbage were overflowing from public boxes and emptying the squares to the streets, which disturbs the residents.

“Helping our house and her husband, who worked as a driver, alike, and now we have no help,” said Tapasum Bano, who lives in one of the complexes.

The campaign against illegal immigrants from the Muslim majority of Bangladesh is not new in India. The two countries are divided into a porous border of 4,096 km (2545 miles), and have seen waves of people’s movement on both sides.

But it seems that these efforts were intensified during the era of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

In recent months, hundreds of people, including a veteran Muslim officer in the Indian army, have been arrested on suspicion of illegal immigrants.

In the northeastern province of Asam, where the issue was a strong flash point for decades, the authorities were “Pay” hundreds of Bengalia Muslims In Bangladesh, on suspicion of being “illegal Bangladeshi”.

The deportations are also taking place in Delhi, where about 700 people have been captured and transported to the border states in the past six months.

This has a chilling effect on the marginalized society.

In Gurugram, a feeling of shock prevailed on their colonies integrated into dust.

“For years, we cleaned and collected their garbage. Now we are treating us,” said Rona Bibi.

Home assistance, Rona’s husband from Western Bengal returned on the same day that the arrests began. When he heard about it, he was very terrified, left again – this time, without informing his wife.

Rona said: “For three days, I wondered whether it was captured, whether it was alive.” “When we finally talked, he said he did not call because he did not want any problem.”

But it was not the behavior of her husband who disturbed Rona, or the fact that he is now unemployed. The theft of her pride – and the comfort of belonging to a place – was more harmful to her, which makes her feel unlikely.

“Unlike poverty, I cannot fight this with my hard work,” she said. “If you choose us, you will not know how to survive. These slums, the work we do and the homes we clean – this is our whole life.”

Mr. Kumar says that the last procedure depends on the Ministry of Interior’s notification from May, which sets new guidelines for the deportation of illegal immigrants.

According to the matter, all countries must create a special business squad along with retaining centers “discovering and identifying/deporting/returning illegal immigrants who have settled from Bangladesh and Myanmar.”

Each person will be granted 30 days to prove their nationality, as the authorities will send their documents to their original areas to verify them.

If they fail to confirm the details, the suspects by the police will take “under an appropriate escort, in groups as much as possible”, and hand them over to the border forces for deportation.

However, critics questioned this matter, saying that he does not specify the basis on which a person is made.

“On the apparent thing, nothing but the fact that you speak the Bengali, and she has a Muslim name and lives in the huts,” said Akash Bhahataria, of the National Council of the National Council for Commercial Federations for Commercial Federations calling for workers.

He added that none of the suspects is not given certificates confirming that their nationality has already been verified.

“This means that they can be placed through the same process again, making it very weak.”

Mr. Kumar says that the arrests in Gurugram were made on the basis of strong initial evidence.

“We examined their phones and we found suspicious contacts from Bangladesh. Some also failed to answer questions about their ancestors during interrogation,” he said.

SUHAS Chakma, a human rights worker, says politics is not necessarily a religious, a religious person.

“It seems that the arrest of Muslims is more because they constitute about 95 % of the population of Bangladesh,” he said.

But for a country witnessed a flow of refugees for decades, India needs a broader refugee law to address many of these complex issues.

Currently, Muslim Bengalis live with a deep feeling of guilt.

Many of them slept with documents tucked under the pillow in the event of bad luck.

“We were already fighting the harsh reality in our lives. Now we have to fight this too,” said Rabi Hassan, a resident of Jay Hind, a huge scourge in one of the most accurate angles of Delhi.

Three weeks ago, the authorities cut electricity in the area, immediately sinking about 400 people in the dark.

This procedure came after the court ruled that the men of the poor neighborhoods, who say they lived there for generations, were sitting on private lands.

“They did so even when the region is recognized as legal neighborhoods by the Urban Planning Organization in the city,” said Abhik Chimni, a lawyer who challenges the matter.

Since then, the population has been in a kind of astonishment, amazement, angry and tired. “The heat is unbearable. Food continues to rot and the children do not stop crying. At night, we try to sleep outside, but then we will bite mosquitoes,” said Bigan Bibi.

“I am very exhausted,” she said, sometimes I wonder if it is better to live in a contract center. At least there will be a fan there, right? “