Bengali migrant worker forced into Bangladesh at gunpoint, alleges family

Family members of a 19-year-old migrant worker from West Bengal have alleged that he was forced into Bangladesh at gunpoint by the Border Security Force after being arrested and kept in a detention centre in Rajasthan for two months.

After a video of the man, Amir Sheikh, speaking to residents in Bangladesh was widely circulated online, his family filed a police complaint, his uncle, Mohammed Ajmaul Sheikh, told Scroll on Saturday.

In the video, Amir Sheikh can be heard saying that he is a resident of West Bengal’s Malda. He said he was working in Rajasthan and the state police picked him up on suspicion of being a Bangladeshi.

Amir Sheikh also claimed that he had shown his Aadhaar card and additional documents of his parents to the police, but they “insisted on an ID proof”, which he did not have.

“I do not know anybody in Bangladesh,” he can be heard saying. “I have nothing to eat.”

Amir Sheikh, a 21-year-old migrant worker from Malda, Bengal was detained in Rajasthan and thrown across the border into Bangladesh using a JCB by @BSF_India - despite having valid Indian documents!
This isn’t security. pic.twitter.com/WfBhdQoUar— Pritish Roy (@PritishRoyAITC) July 25, 2025

Mohammed Ajmaul Sheikh told Scroll that Amir Sheikh had gone to Rajasthan three months ago.

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