New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- The controversy over a police officer's letter to the Banga Bhawan in Delhi, calling Bengali a 'Bangladeshi language', has bowled into a full-fledged political fracas.

"Translation of documents containing text written in Bangladeshi language-regarding," the subject line of Amit Dutt's letter read.

"The identification documents contain texts written in Bangladeshi and are needed to be translated to Hindi and English. Now, for the investigation to proceed further, it is requested that an official translator/interpreter proficient in Bangladeshi national language may kindly be provided for the aforesaid purpose..." the letter reads after talking about eight people arrested on suspicion of being Bangladeshi nationals an...