Daily Brief - ‘She had stepped out to buy food’: Another Bengali woman forcibly pushed to Bangladesh from Mumbai

Hello, I’m Shreya Das from the social team. Today’s edition of the Daily Brief covers everything from how a Bengali-Muslim woman living in Mumbai was pushed into Bangladesh even after showing her birth certificate and other documents to a US federal judge formally dismissing criminal charges in a securities fraud case against Gautam Adani. We also have the latest development of a shop being demolished after serving nonvegetarian food on the Kanwar Yatra route in Uttar Pradesh and an RTI response revealing that pellet guns injured ten protestors in Delhi.

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The police acted against Sahida Fakir despite her family submitting her birth and school certificates, her voter ID card and a land title, her husband said.

However, the court criticised a senior Justice Department official’s conduct in the case.

The administration has told traders along routes for the pilgrimage not to sell non-vegetarian food during the Hindu month of Sawan.

TMC leader Saket Gokhale, who had filed the Right to Information query, said that he had yet to receive replies from AIIMS and RML Hospital in Delhi.

The economic benefits are concentrated in a few places, deepening regional inequality and prompting migration which fuels nativist backlash.

An excerpt from ‘From the Depth of the Mould: Meera Mukherjee (1923-1998), A Centenary Tribute’, edited by Tapati Guha-Thakurta.

‘Where the Creature Is, There Is the Creator: Poems by Akho and Vasto’ is Gieve Patel’s homage to the poets.

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