Madhubala Mandal, 59, poses for a photograph inside her bamboo hut in Bishnupur village in the northeastern state of Assam, India, July 10, 2019. Picture taken July 10, 2019. REUTERS/Zeba Siddiqui
BISHNUPUR, India (Reuters) - Three years ago, police in India's northeastern state of Assam were looking for a woman named Madhumala Das, who had been declared an illegal immigrant by a local tribunal.
When they reached the village of Bishnupur, they picked up 59-year-old Madhubala Mandal, who was lighting a fire outside her bamboo hut one morning in November 2016.
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