Activists and counsels, who have labeled the new expulsions as illegal and on ethnic profiling, are condemning India after it is confirmed that hundreds of people have been deported to Bangladesh without trial.
The Indian officials have claimed that deportees are illegal immigrants.
The Hindu nationalist government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a long record of being stern on immigration with the most significant opposing the immigration of population in Bangladesh a predominant Muslim country. Such immigrants have been referred to by the top Indians as termites and infiltrators.
It has also evoked fear among the 200 million estimated inhabitants of Muslims in India particularly the population of the Bengali speaking people which is widely spoken in the two countries, India and Bangladesh.
The veteran Indian rights activist Harsh Mander described how Muslims especially the ones in the eastern half of the nation are terrified.
You have thrown millions on this state of dread.
Bangladesh, which is surrounded by land by India to a great deal, has also had a frost relationship with New Delhi ever since mass uprising overthrew Dhaka government, an earlier friend of India in 2024.
However, in another move to target migrants, India intensified its actions against migrants following a wider security crackdown following a deadly attack in the west, the April 22 killing of 26 people, most of them Hindu tourists, in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
Said attack by New Delhi was directed to Pakistan, but this was denied by Islamabad and ended in a four-day war killing over 70 human beings.
Indian officials initiated an operation of nationwide security never witnessed before in the history of the country and since then, tens of thousands have been arrested- and most of them eventually deported to neighboring Bangladesh at gunpoint.
