It had barely been a month since Palash Adhikary, a resident of Burdwan district of West Bengal, had resettled on the outskirts of Bengaluru along with his wife and two-year-old son when police officers came knocking on his door in July 2022. Having lived in Burdwan all his life, Palash, a Hindu, never thought his Indian identity would ever be questioned.
So, when the police who knocked on his door asked him to prove it, he was shocked.
