Raipur, July 15 -- Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra has alleged that nine labourers from
her Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal were wrongfully detained by police in Chhattisgarh's Kondagaon district and falsely identified as illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
The workers were reportedly involved in construction work at a private school in the Albeda Pada area when they were taken into custody on July 12.
In a strongly worded post on X (formerly Twitter), Moitra accused the Chhattisgarh government and police of carrying out a "state-sponsored abduction."
She claimed the workers, despite having valid identity documents, were arrested without warrants and sent to jail under Section 128 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNSS), without le...