Mahua Moitra Writes To UN Rights Body, Alleges Muslim IAS And IPS Officers Were Kept Away From Amit Shah’s Bengal Events

Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra has written to a United Nations human rights body alleging that senior Muslim IAS and IPS officers in West Bengal were excluded from official events linked to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s visits to the state, claiming their religion was the common factor behind the exclusions.

Moitra addressed her letter to Professor Nicolas Levrat, the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), alleging that three officers were “either asked to leave or told not to attend official events on three occasions” during Shah’s visits to West Bengal in July and August 2026, while their non-Muslim colleagues faced no such restriction.

The Officers Named

In her communication, Moitra named three officers she said were affected:

• Waquar Raza, Siliguri Police Commissioner, whom she said was barred from a welcome lineup
• Jawed Shamim, chief of the West Bengal Police’s Special Task Force, whom she said was not invited to events
• Khalil Ahmed, an IAS officer, whom she said was made to leave a meeting

“The one factor these three officers share… is their religion,” Moitra said, arguing that this was the only distinguishing factor between them and colleagues who were permitted to remain at the events.

From A Social Media Post To A UN Letter

Moitra first raised the allegation in a social media post on September 1, 2026, naming the three officers and accusing the government of deliberately keeping Muslim officers out of the Union Home Minister’s events. She has since formalised the complaint in writing to the UN Special Rapporteur, citing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and has asked the Rapporteur to seek an explanation from the Indian government while also urging that CCTV footage and official records from Shah’s visits be preserved.

The allegations have not been independently verified, and there has been no official response so far from the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Union Home Ministry, or the West Bengal government confirming or denying the claims.

FIR Filed Against Moitra

Moitra’s original social media post has itself become a flashpoint. A complaint was filed against her at a police station in Diamond Harbour over her remarks, and she has been summoned for questioning by cybercrime police in connection with the case. Moitra has maintained that she was simply drawing attention to what she described as a pattern of religious discrimination in official protocol during the Home Minister’s state visits.

The matter is likely to escalate further as a political flashpoint between the TMC and the BJP in West Bengal, with both the UN complaint and the police case against Moitra now running in parallel.