Indian authorities have expelled more than 1,500 ethnic Bengali Muslims to Bangladesh in recent weeks without due process, claiming they are 'illegal immigrants', said Human Rights Watch on Thursday.
'Many of them are Indian citizens from states bordering Bangladesh,' said a press release issued by the international rights watchdog on the day.
The release said that out of these people, who were being expelled between May 7 and June 15, about 100 were Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.
The Indian government has provided no official data on the number of people expelled but the Border Guard Bangladesh has reported that this statistics, the release read.
'Since May 2025, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has intensified operations to expel ethnic Bengali Muslims to Bangladesh, ostensibly to deter people from entering India without legal authorization,' the release continued.
'The government should stop unlawfully deporting people without due process and instead ensure everyone鈥檚 access to procedural safeguards to protect against arbitrary detention and expulsion,' the release added.
