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You have no realistic options, legally. Companies don't need to assign a reason for terminating you during your probation. They can just issue a letter closing your probation, and that is the end of the story.
At a practical level, your only option is to escalate this to your senior management or HR team, and ask them to do a fair and independent review. Once you have exhausted that option, I suggest you make your peace with it, and try to ask for as long a notice period as possible, so that you can look for another job.
I also suggest you get your story straight, about why you want to look for a job so soon after joining this company. The best reason is "the role did not match up to the position described" . I suggest you don't blame your team or the company for making you leave, but only say that you were promised that you will do XYZ but you are instead doing ABC.
All the best to you.
In the event the termination is on account of your non-satisfactory performance, organisation may terminate you on that ground, as performance related ground/s are not treated as stigmatic.
However, if the reason for such termination is on account of some disciplinary reason, they would not be able to terminate you on that ground, without first undertaking a disciplinary proceeding and allowing you to defend.
They may still terminate you, without specifying anything in your termination letter, and can claim the termination to not be 'stigmatic', on account of actual disciplinary reason having not been mentioned. However, you could establish that 'motive' was the disciplinary reason.
All said and done, and considering you are in your probation period, it may make sense to opt for resignation, unless you think the reason is disciplinary and you want to fight the long battle.
I’d suggest that you try and get in touch with the HR personnel in your company and maybe request them to clarify the reason for all this. You’ll get a better idea that way. And if you are close to someone who’s HR, pls try asking them to request. I kinda then there’s some politics at play here. So this may help. But I’m sorry you’ve been out in this position and I hope things work out soon enough.
And also pls don’t resort to confrontation. It may backfire. But this doesn’t mean you tolerate toxic behaviour.
But in my case, they are actually forcing me to resign.
Is it legal?
Suddenly, my senior told me to write a resignation letter as my training has been biased.
How can they force me to resign?
What should I do?
I am not from legal domain.