Bengal migrant worker lynched in Odisha on suspicion of 'being Bangladeshi'

Key Highlights

• All six accused involved in the lynching have been arrested. advertisement According to police, the incident occurred when the victim, identified as Juel Sheikh, and other workers from West Bengal were preparing food at their living place in Sambalpur.
• A group of six men approached them asking for a bidi.
• When the workers refused, the men allegedly demanded to see their Aadhaar cards, triggering an altercation that escalated into a scuffle. Sheikh was hit on the head with a hard object and succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment at the Sambalpur hospital."The miscreants first asked for bidi from us and then asked me to show our Aadhaar cards.
• Later, they rammed Juel head against a hard object," another worker, Majhar Khan, injured in the attack, told news agency PTI. Nizamuddin Khan claimed the assailants branded them as Bangladeshis before attacking Sheikh and two others.
• Two of the injured workers have been admitted to hospital and are undergoing treatment. IGP (Northern Range) Himanshu Kumar Lal said that the murder has nothing to do with whether the "victim was a Bengali or a Bangladeshi".