Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra has approached the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues over allegations that senior Muslim IAS and IPS officers in West Bengal were excluded from official events during Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s visits to the state in July and August. Moitra alleged that the officers were either asked to leave or told not to attend government events linked to Shah’s visits. PTI could not independently verify the allegations.

In her letter to Professor Nicolas Levrat, Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Moitra alleged that three senior officers faced exclusion on three occasions. She claimed officers from other faiths were allowed to remain at the events. The officers named in her letter are Siliguri Police Commissioner Waquar Raza, West Bengal Police Special Task Force Chief Jawed Shamim and senior IAS officer Khalil Ahmed.

Moitra said the three officers were treated differently from their colleagues during official engagements. “The one factor these three officers share, and the one factor that sets them apart from the colleagues who were permitted to remain, is their religion,” she said in the letter.

The TMC MP described the alleged incidents as a pattern of “deliberate exclusion”. She said such treatment could affect the confidence of minority communities in the police and security establishment. Moitra asked the UN Special Rapporteur to seek details from the Government of India on the reasons for the alleged exclusion and the authority under which any such directions were issued.

She also requested the preservation of CCTV footage, tour diaries and other official records linked to Shah’s visits. Moitra cited provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in her complaint. She urged the UN expert to seek an explanation from the Indian government and ensure that officers are not excluded from official duties based on religion.

Moitra had first raised the issue through a social media post earlier in September. She alleged that Waquar Raza was kept out of a welcome lineup, Jawed Shamim was not invited to events participated by Shah, and Khalil Ahmed was asked to leave a meeting. A police complaint was later filed against Moitra in Diamond Harbour over her post, after which cybercrime police summoned her for questioning.

The complaint to the UN now seeks scrutiny of the alleged incidents and preservation of records that could help establish what happened during Shah’s visits. The allegations concern official engagements in West Bengal and remain unverified independently.