Meghalaya Woman Faces Racial Abuse in Delhi: "I Don't Belong Here" Despite Being in Her Own Country

New Delhi:

A woman from Meghalaya has shared her distressing experience through a social media video, claiming she faced racial discrimination on two separate occasions in Delhi within the same day.

The incidents reportedly occurred in Kamla Nagar and inside a Delhi Metro train. Delhi Police have acknowledged these allegations and launched an investigation into the matter.

In her video testimony, the woman from Meghalaya described how a group of three to four men sitting on a scooter directed racial slurs at her while she was walking in Kamla Nagar.

"After hearing their comments, I turned around and looked at them, which prompted them all to start laughing. I couldn't immediately process what I had just experienced," she stated in her video.

She further explained that shortly afterward, while traveling on the metro, another man made similar racist remarks directed at her, causing another passenger to laugh.

"This was the second racial incident I experienced in a single day," she noted.

"I've traveled to various countries where I never felt unwelcome or out of place. Yet today, in my own country, fellow Indians made me feel like I don't belong here," the woman expressed.

"It's heartbreaking. My only fault is being born in India while having different physical features from most Indians. People mock and laugh at me simply because of how I look," she said emotionally in her video.

The woman concluded by urging viewers to end discrimination against people from Northeast India.

A senior police official informed PTI that authorities are investigating the incidents and verifying the claims made in the video, though they have not yet received a formal complaint regarding these allegations.