Facing eviction menace, say migrant staff from West Bengal in Gurugram

Residents of Gurugram are receiving frantic messages from their workers, who’re migrant staff from West Bengal, claiming that they’re being threatened with eviction by landlords amid the police’s ongoing verification drive aimed toward figuring out and deporting Bangladeshi nationals staying illegally within the metropolis.

Ruchika Sethi, a social employee, stated she obtained a misery name on July 29 from a lady working as a home assist in her housing society.

The lady, who hails from a village in West Bengal’s Malda district and has been residing within the metropolis’s Tigra space for the previous 12 years, alleged that a couple of cops and her landlord, who belongs to the Gujjar neighborhood, visited her constructing at midnight and threatened her and two different Bengali households with dire penalties in the event that they did not vacate their rented lodging inside a day.

‘Vacate by August 10’

Ms. Sethi stated the home assist was later given time until August 10 to vacate her home. “Those residing in pucca homes got time until August 10, whereas these residing in shanties have been requested to vacate by August 2,” she stated.

A 53-year-old sanitation employee from the Sundarbans and a resident of Tigra stated migrant staff are actually residing in fixed concern. He stated a younger man named Akbar, who was carrying bins in a cart, was lately stopped by the police. “As quickly as they discovered he was from Bengal, they started hitting him,” the employee alleged.

He claimed that migrant staff are being requested to vacate their homes and return to West Bengal. They have been requested to cough up ₹50,000 in the event that they fail to conform, he added.

“The police didn’t even ask Akbar his title or demand to see his paperwork. So, what’s the assure that they won’t torture us if we keep past August 10?” he stated.

Several residents of Gurugram have submitted complaints to the police, urging them to “cease such atrocities”.

Captain Rupinder, one other resident, stated she submitted two complaints about totally different situations of Bengali migrant staff being focused.

“We spoke to a number of Bengali migrant staff who dwell in Tigra and have urged the police to cease such acts,” she stated. However, Assistant Sub-Inspector Sandeep Kumar dismissed the allegations as “rumours”.

He claimed that the police had held a gathering with home staff and 20-odd resident welfare associations (RWAs) to confirm the allegations. “We met a number of staff in Tigra together with RWA members however nobody raised any such complaints,” stated the Gurugram Police PRO.