Strangers in Their Own Land: Sweety Bibi’s Year of Hell and the Crisis of India’s Marginalized Muslims

For 34-year-old Sweety Bibi, a resident of a modest slum in Delhi’s Rohini, the nightmare began in June 2025. Despite possessing a valid Aadhar card and official Indian identity documents, she was abruptly stripped of her citizenship and forced out of her country at gunpoint under the label of an "illegal Bangladeshi." Her harrowing ordeal is not merely an isolated administrative error, but a chilling testament to the systemic disenfranchisement and human rights violations faced by marginalized Bengali-speaking Muslims in India.