“I pushed across the border to Bangladesh at the threat of weapons.”

Shona Bano is still trembling when you think in the past few days.

The 58 -year -old, a resident of the northeastern parts of the eastern Assam, says that she was called to the local police station on May 25 and was later transferred to the border with the neighboring Bangladesh. From there, she says, she and about 13 people were forced to cross into Bangladesh.

She says she has not been informed of the reason. But she was a scenario that she was frightening – Mrs. Banu says that she lived in Asam throughout her life, but over the past few years, she was strongly trying to prove that she was an Indian citizen and not a “illegal immigrant” from Bangladesh.

“They pushed me at gunpoint. I spent two days without food or water in the middle of a field in in -depth water filled with mosquitoes and creation.” After these two days in the land of no man – between India and Bangladesh – she says she was transferred to what appeared to be an old prison on the Bangladesh side.

Two days after there, she and a few others – not sure whether all of them from the same group were sent with her – had been raised by Bangladeshi officials across the border, as the Indian officials claimed that they met them and sent them home.

It is not clear why Mrs. Banu suddenly was sent to Bangladesh and then returned. But her case is among a group of modern cases in which officials in Asam assembled people who announced foreigners by the courts in the past – on suspicion of being “illegal Bangladeshi” – and sent them across the border. The BBC found at least six cases, as people said that their family members had been captured, transferred to the border cities and “pushing”.

Officials from the Border Security Force in India, Asam Police and the state government have not received questions from the BBC.

The campaign against illegal immigrants from Bangladesh is not new in India – the two countries are divided into a porous border of 4,096 km (2545 miles) that can make it relatively easy to cross, although many sensitive areas are strongly protected.

But this is still rare, the lawyers working in these cases say that people suddenly capture their homes and forcing them to enter another country without legal procedures. It seems that these efforts have intensified over the past few weeks.

The Indian government has not officially decreased the number of people sent via the last exercise. But the supreme sources of the Bangladesh administration claim that India was “illegally pushed” in “more than 1,200 people in the country in May alone, not only from the mandate of Aam but also in other states. From this, they said on the condition that his identity was not disclosed, and Bangladesh identified 100 people as Indian citizens and sent them.

In a statement, the Border goalkeeper, Bangladesh, said that it has increased the patrols along the border to reduce these attempts.

India did not comment on these allegations.

While media reports indicate that the recent campaign includes Rohingya Muslims who live in other states as well, the situation is especially tense and complicated in Asam, where nationality and ethnic identity issues dominate politics for a long time.

The state, which shares about 300 km long with Bangladesh, witnessed waves of migration from the neighboring country where people moved in search of religious opportunities or persecution.

This has sparked the concerns of the Assembly people, many of whom fear this demographic change and rob the resources from the locals.

The Bharatia Jatata Party – in power in the state of Asam and at the national level – has repeatedly promised to end the problem of illegal immigration, making the national registry of citizens (NRC) priority in recent years.

The record is a list of people who can prove that they came to Aam by March 24, 1971, which is the day that Bangladesh has previously announced its independence from Pakistan. The list went through several repetitions, with people whose names lost opportunities to prove their Indian nationality by showing the official documents of the semi -judicial forums called foreign courts.

After a chaotic operation, the final draft that was published in 2019 excluded nearly two million people in Asam – many of them were placed in detention camps while others resumed the higher courts against their exclusion.

Mrs. Bano said her case was suspended in the Supreme Court, but the authorities still forced her to leave.

BBC heard similar stories from at least six others in the state of Asam – all Muslims – who say that their family members were sent to Bangladesh at the same time as Mrs. Banu, despite the presence of necessary documents and living in India for several generations. At least four of them returned home, with no answers about the reason they captured.

A third of the 32 million population of Aam, and many of them are descendants of immigrants who settled there during British rule.

Malika Khatoon, 67, says Barbita in Asam, who is still in Bangladesh, says she has had shelter by a local family.

“I have no one here,” predicted. Her family managed to talk to her, but she does not know if she could return. She lost her case in the Foreigners Court and in the State Supreme Court and the Supreme Court has not appealed.

Days after the start of the last round of work, the Prime Minister of Sarma He was martyred under the direction of the Supreme Court in February Which ordered the government to start deportation procedures for people who were “declared foreigners”, but are still detained in detention centers.

Sarma said: “The people who announced foreigners but did not appeal to the court, we pushed them back,” Sarma said. He also claimed that people with the resumption of the suspended court were not “forced”.

But Abdel -Razak Bhawian, a lawyer who works on many citizenship cases in the state of Asam, claimed that in many modern cases, he did not follow legal procedures – which would require, among other things, India and Bangladesh, cooperation at work -.

“What is happening is a deliberate and deliberate interpretation of the court’s order,” he said.

Mr. Bhuyan recently submitted a petition on behalf of a student organization seeking to obtain the intervention of the Supreme Court to stop what they said was a “strong and illegal policy”, but it was first asked to approach the Aam Supreme Court.

In Morigon, about 167 km from Barbita, Rita Khatoon sat near a table with a pile of leaves.

Her husband Khair Al -Islam, a 51 -year -old teacher, was in the same group in which the authorities picked up by the authorities.

A court announced that he was foreign in 2016, after which he spent two years at a detention center before his release. Like Mrs. Bano, his case is also heard in the Supreme Court.

“Every document is evidence that my husband is an Indian.” “But this was not enough to prove his nationality to the authorities.”

She says that her husband and father and grandfather were all born in India.

But on May 23, it says that the police officers arrived at their home and took the master of Islam away without any explanation.

Just a few days later – when a viral video of Bangladesh journalist appeared in an interview with Mr. Islam in the land of no man – the family learned where it was.

Like Mrs. Banu, the Master of Islam has now been sent to India.

While his family confirmed his return, the BBC police told that it was “no information” about his arrival.

Sanjima Begum says she is sure that her father announced that he was a foreigner because of a state of wrong identity – he was also transferred on the same night as Mr. Islam.

Ms. Bejoom said: “My father’s name is Abdul Latif, my grandfather Abdul -Souban was.

The family has now heard that Mr. Latif has returned to the mandate of Asam, but he has not yet arrived at home.

While some of these people have come home now, they are afraid that they will be captured suddenly.

“We are not games,” Mrs. Pegum said.

“These are human beings, you cannot throw them according to your whims.”

Additional reports by Amer Berzada and Ritam Roy