Guwahati: Three years after being tagged a 'foreigner' and sent to a detention camp in Assam, a 59-year-old woman has finally been released with police admitting she was a victim of mistaken identity and officials had picked up the wrong person. The victim of mistaken identity, Madhubala Mandal, a widow, returned home to her hearing-impaired daughter on Wednesday evening, shortly after being freed from a camp for illegal immigrants in Kokrajhar.

Madhubala Mandal was released after police admitted that they sent her to the detention camp instead of a Madhumala Das who was declared a foreigner by the Tribunal in 2016. Both women belong to Bishnupur in Chirang district. "When I received a complaint that Madhubala Mandal has become a victim of mistaken identity and sent to a detention centre, I constituted an inquiry and the facts came out. It was a case of mistaken identity," Sudhakar Singh, Chirang District Superintendent of Police told the media.