Family members and co-workers said the attack stemmed from suspicions that Sheikh was an undocumented Bangladeshi immigrant, an allegation Odisha police denied A Muslim migrant labourer from West Bengal was beaten to death in Odisha on Wednesday, with police arresting six people in connection with the incident, The Indian Express reported. The victim, identified as...
Police arrested a Bengali man in connection with the woman’s murder, but Adivasi groups demanded action against more suspects. Authorities in Odisha’s Malkangiri district imposed restrictions on public gatherings and suspended internet services on Monday after clashes between Adivasi groups and Bengali settlers, officials said, following the murder of an Adivasi woman that escalated long-standing...
Traders say police dismissed identity documents and accused them of being foreigners for speaking Bengali Four Muslim traders from West Bengal’s Murshidabad district have been ordered to leave Odisha’s Nayagarh town within three days after being accused of being Bangladeshi or Rohingya migrants, The Telegraph reported on Tuesday. The men, all from Sagarpara gram panchayat...