Overview

• Under Union Home Ministry directives, Gurugram police have held more than 50 Bengali-speaking migrant workers in municipal centre zones while their documents undergo inter-state verification
• Mamata Banerjee denounced the detentions as a violation of citizens’ rights and announced a year-long Bhasha Andolan language movement starting July 27
• The Calcutta High Court ordered Odisha to file an affidavit by August 20 after its Advocate General asserted that only lawful document verifications took place under the Foreigners Act
• Intelligence-led raids in Murshidabad and Assam’s Bongaigaon led to the confirmed arrest of eight Bangladeshi nationals and accomplices on illegal-entry charges
• Opposition parties and rights groups have staged processions in Kolkata and filed habeas corpus petitions alleging due-process breaches and linguistic profiling