Dhaka, June 25 -- More than 4,500 individuals who are Muslim in religion have been pushed unlawfully into Bangladesh from India between June 2024 and June 2025, according to official statements, media reports, and rights groups with hundreds of them reportedly sent to the border at gunpoint, particularly from the Indian state of Assam, under a sweeping crackdown that critics call discriminatory and illegal.

The expulsions reached in an alarming pace in May 2025 under a campaign initiated by India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led governments in states like Assam, West Bengal, Gujarat, and Delhi.

The highest number of expulsions came from Gujarat and Delhi, where over 1,000 and 770 individuals respectively were deported in large-scale p...