New Delhi, July 26 -- All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday condemned the detention of Bengali-speaking Muslim citizens across the country, labelling them as "illegal" while accusing the police administration of "targeting" them since they couldn't challenge "police atrocities".

He said that those being labelled as illegal immigrants are "the poorest of the poor", who are mostly slum-dwellers, and work as domestic workers and rag-pickers. Owaisi argued that they were being targeted repeatedly because they couldn't challenge "police atrocities."

He stated that there have been reports of Indian citizens being pushed into Bangladesh at gunpoint.

"Police in different parts of India have been ille...