India, July 30 -- A migrant worker from Goalpokhar in West Bengal's North Dinajpur district alleged on Wednesday that he had suffered a fracture in his right leg when he was tortured for three days by police at Haryana's Panipat on the suspicion that he was an illegal Bangladeshi immigrant.

"The Panipat police detained me on July 25 and pressured me to say that I am a Bangladeshi national just because I speak Bengali. I said I was from West Bengal but they refused to listen. Two policemen used to grab me and two others used to hit me with batons," Md Junaid Alam told the media at his Goalpokhar home on Wednesday.

"The torture went on for three days before they released me. I returned home yesterday with some other migrant workers," he a...