Bhubaneswar: Two days after Mahua Moitra warned Odisha DGP and Nayagarh SP over alleged forcible removal of four Bengali-speaking Muslim traders from Odagaon, Nayagarh police strongly refuted the allegations made by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP.

Nayagarh SP S. Sushree said the accusation was ‘completely false’, clarifying that police only carried out routine verification of identity documents but did not evict anyone. ADVERTISEMENT

The SP informed that Odagaon police had received information that 14 unidentified Bengali-speaking ferry vendors were plying their trade in nearby villages.

Police had summoned them for standard identity verification, to check if one or some of them were illegal immigrants from Bangladesh or Rohingya settlers.

“They were asked to produce their identifica

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