Congress protests at Utkal Bhavan over lynching of Bengali Muslim migrant worker in Odisha

He urged the government to issue official identity cards to all migrant workers at the earliest.”These identity cards should clearly mention the worker’s home district, the local police station and the contact number of a police officer so that they can seek immediate help while working outside the state,” he said.The Congress leader said that such incidents would continue unless concrete steps were taken to protect migrant workers.A 30-year-old migrant worker from West Bengal was allegedly killed in Odisha’s Sambalpur district following an altercation over a bidi recently, police said.Juel Sheikh was working, along with a few others from West Bengal, in the construction of a building in Shanti Nagar in the Ainthapalli police station area.They were returning from work when a group of six men stopped them and asked for a bidi.An altercation broke out, leading to a scuffle between the two sides, police said.Juel was thrashed severely, and he died while undergoing treatment at the Sambalpur hospital.The six accused persons have been arrested by the police.West Bengal’s ruling TMC claimed that Juel was beaten to death over suspicion that he was an illegal Bangladeshi immigrant.



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