Padagha’s stigma: This time it is an outsider, but...

...we are still profiled and are constantly under police scanner and often raided at the drop of a hat, say fed up villagers

This twin village of 14,000 residents in Bhiwandi is back in the news with the recent arrest of two suspects who settled there just seven months ago. The villagers who are trying hard to get rid of the tag of ‘Village of Terrorists’ since the arrest of one of their locals, Saqib Nachan, in the Mumbai bomb blasts, are upset about how they are constantly under the scanner.

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