DACCA: Muslims are being constantly harassed and treated as enemies of the State by the Government of West Bengal… . The Government have started a special detective branch to investigate exclusively ... the movements and activities of the Muslims. The personnel of the Special Branch are reported to have made a lucrative business out of their official position ... exacting exorbitant sums of money from innocent Muslims with the threat that if they failed to pay ... they will be arrested on the charge of being Pakistani spies.

The Income-Tax Department of the Government of Bharat on the other hand, in an attempt to root out Muslims from different business and professional pursuits, are imposing heavy Income-Tax with the result that a large number of Muslim concerns have been locked up. …

The recent arrest of the editor and printer of an Urdu daily of Calcutta, Angarah, and subsequent order of the West Bengal Government for closing up the office of the paper, and the search made in the offices of another Urdu daily Al-Huq and an Urdu weekly Insaf [are] stated to be on the baseless reports of the Detective Department. — News agencies

Published in Dawn, October 13th, 2026