Overview

• Police broke open Dilip Kumar Saha’s locked Regent Park home on August 3 and found him hanging from a ceiling fan.
• Officers recovered a suicide note and are probing if anxiety over the National Register of Citizens and Special Immigration Regime drove him to take his life.
• Saha migrated from Nawabganj in Dhaka in 1972 and held valid voter ID and other documents despite fearing statelessness.
• His wife, Arati Saha, said he was terrified of detention camps and forced return to Bangladesh, where he had no contacts.
• Local MLA Arup Biswas blamed public distress over the nationwide expansion of citizenship checks and called for a review of the regime.