Jalil Akhtar: Valid Indian documents, cleared SIR in 2002 & 2026, yet arrested as a ‘Bangladeshi’
On the intervening night of June 19 and 20, Jalil Akhtar, an elderly Muslim man, from West Bengal’s Bagroi village…
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