3 months ago
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A radical of migrant labour families residing in Lakshmi Nagar in the Gangamma Gudi Police Station limits person sought constabulary protection, citing fearfulness of harassment and mendacious accusations of being amerciable immigrants from Bangladesh.
The workers alleged that they were being falsely branded arsenic Bangladeshi nationals by “politically motivated locals”. .
In a letter submitted to D.L. Nagesh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (North-West Division), the families said they were surviving nether changeless anxiousness pursuing incidents of alleged targeting of West Bengal migrant workers successful parts of the city.
The ailment was submitted by Rashikul Sheik, a scrap and rag picker moving successful the GBA limits, connected behalf of 33 migrant labour families presently surviving successful the area. The families said they were each primitively from Nadia territory successful West Bengal, and person been surviving and moving successful Bengaluru for nearly 18 years, including the last 18 months at Lakshmi Nagar, without immoderate problems until recently.
The families stressed that each members are law-abiding Indian citizens employed successful the unorganised assemblage arsenic daily-wage workers and person Aadhaar cards and elector individuality cards to establish their citizenship.
They said they were consenting to cooperate with immoderate verification process and nutrient each indispensable documents, if required. Seeking intervention, the radical requested the constabulary to supply extortion to their families, forestall harassment and intimidation, and guarantee that they were allowed to unrecorded and enactment peacefully successful the metropolis with dignity.
