Updated on: Dec 05, 2025 09:41 pm IST
TMC Rajya Sabha member Samirul Islam, who’s providing simply assistance to the 2 households of migrant workers, mentioned Sunali Khatun’s return marked a victory
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KOLKATA: Sunali Khatun, a pregnant lady deported to Bangladesh in June this 365 days, returned to India in conjunction with her eight-365 days-primitive son thru the Mahadipur border in West Bengal’s Malda district on Friday, two days after the Supreme Court docket nudged the central authorities to let her return “on humanitarian grounds”.
Sunali Khatun used to be rushed to Malda Scientific College and Sanatorium for examination as she is in an developed stage of pregnancy, officials on the border instructed newshounds.
“If docs expose her match for run, then Khatun and her son will likely be taken to their village within the Paikar state of Birbhum as soon as that it is doubtless you’ll presumably well presumably presumably take into consideration,” a state police officer mentioned, soliciting for anonymity.
Sunali Khatun and her minor son were picked up from Delhi on June 24 on suspicion that they were unlawful Bangladeshi immigrants and pushed all thru the border. The 2, who were deported in conjunction with her husband, and three contributors of one other family were arrested by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) below the country’s Contain watch over of Entry Act and jailed for illegally getting into with out run documents.
Officials mentioned the BGB and India’s Border Safety Power accomplished simply procedures on Friday evening to let Khatun and her minor son Sabir Sheikh enter India as ordered by the Supreme Court docket on Wednesday.
The characterize used to be preceded by prolonged simply battles in India and Bangladesh.
In India, the Supreme Court docket on Wednesday, which used to be listening to an charm by the central authorities, noticed that the topic demanded humanity over technicalities. The Centre has appealed against two orders of the Calcutta high court, which on September 26, directed that the six folks deported to Bangladesh on June 26 be introduced wait on and given a paunchy different to worth their Indian citizenship. The deportees incorporated Sunali, her minor son and husband, who lived in Delhi’s Rohini state where she labored as a home wait on. The high court had also passed a identical course in a separate petition provocative one other lady, her husband and their minor son. They, too, were held from the Rohini state on June 24 and pushed all thru the border on June 26.
The deportations ordered by the Foreigner Regional Registration Living of job (FRRO) Delhi prompted a political row with the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal accusing Bharatiya Janata Secure collectively-dominated states of detaining a total lot of migrant workers from the state and declaring them Bangladeshi infiltrators correct because they bid Bengali.
The row continues within the urge-up to the 2026 state polls with TMC leaders calling their BJP counterparts Bangla-birodhi zamindars (anti-Bengali landlords).
TMC Rajya Sabha member Samirul Islam, who’s providing simply assistance to the 2 households of migrant workers, mentioned Khatun’s return marked a victory.
“In a roundabout arrangement, after a prolonged wrestle against the Bangla-Birodhi Zamindars, Sunali Khatun and her minor son comprise returned to India. In on the present time and age will likely be remembered as a ancient moment that exposes the torture and atrocities inflicted on unlucky Bengalis. Sunali, who used to be pregnant on the time, used to be forcibly deported in June this 365 days,” Islam wrote on X.
Per the TMC, Sunali, her husband Danish Sheikh, their son and one other couple, Sweety Bibi and Kurban Sheikh, and their minor son Imam Dewan are all residents of Birbhum. The households went to Delhi seeking employment and were picked up by police from the Rohini state on June 24.
Sunali Khatun’s father Bhadu Sheikh and Amir Khan, Sweety Bibi’s uncle, moved the high court days after the households were pushed into Bangladesh on June 26.
