Letters: Misreading influx crisis

Illegal immigration from Bangladesh is a protracted problem in the region, over which India had to go to war with Pakistan in 1971

The over-the-top anguish and Islamophilia expressed by Karan Thapar in “Azmal Hoque is a human being, not a statistic” (October 9) is perplexing. Is it the author’s point that suspected criminals, foreign enemies and spies must not at any cost be inconvenienced by mundane things such as the law of the land if they happen to belong to the minority community, especially Muslim? Verification of citizenship is a routine affair in Northeast irrespective of a resident’s caste or creed, and no one takes offence to it except the bleeding hearts desperately seeking cases of discrimination against and targeting of minorities.