KOLKATA: Birbhum resident Sunali Khatun, nine months and 12 days pregnant, returned to India alongside with her son, Shabir, 8, on Friday evening, six months after the family’s ordeal started with Delhi Police detaining them as “illegal immigrants”, BSF pushing them into Bangladesh, and authorities there jailing them for illegal entry.Mother and son entered Bengal thru the Mahadipur border checkpoint in Malda around 7pm and had been obtained by zilla parishad sabhadhipati Lipika Ghosh and varied Trinamool functionaries. Officers took them to Malda Clinical College and Clinical institution, the put medical doctors ran tests to pick when she can dawdle four-and-a-half hours by avenue to realize her dwelling in Birbhum.Sunali changed into unwell & crying… I’m skittish, says her motherBangladeshi couple Farooq and Mumtaj Hossain, who hosted Sunali Khatun and her family after they obtained bail about a days prior to now, acknowledged medical doctors in Chapai Nawabganj had planned to induce labour.
They abandoned the opinion when Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) acknowledged she wanted to be handed over to BSF straight. Sunali’s husband Danish Sk stays in Bangladesh, awaiting completion of repatriation formalities alongside with fellow Birbhum resident Sweety Biwi & her two sons.All six had been deported on June 26 despite having Aadhaar and varied identification paperwork, their lawyers acknowledged. Sunali, Danish and Sweety had been earning a residing as ragpickers in Delhi when they had been rounded up on June 17 on suspicion of being Bangladeshis residing illegally in India.
With 26-three hundred and sixty five days-inclined Sunali’s repatriation getting delayed despite Supreme Court’s Dec 3 directive to govt to be obvious her return “throughout the direction of the day”, her counsel had mailed the court docket’s registry early Friday for an pressing hearing by the bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi.Things began to pass around 3.30pm after a BGB crew and Indian embassy officers reached Chapai Nawabganj to escort Sunali and her dinky one from the dwelling the put they had been being saved, except the arena border.
Rampurhat chief medical officer Sovan De acknowledged all imaginable medical preparations had been made for Sunali’s arrival in Birbhum. Social employee Mofijul Sk, who changed into in Bangladesh to facilitate her return, acknowledged an ambulance would rob her from Malda to her dwelling as soon as medical doctors licensed her match to dawdle.Sunali’s mother Jyotsna and her daughter Anisha returned to their Birbhum dwelling from Delhi on Friday. Each and each had travelled to the nationwide capital for the SC hearing on Dec 3. “We boarded a educate from Delhi as soon as we had been instructed Sunali changed into coming wait on. I am skittish about her effectively being. She changed into feeling unwell and crying as soon as I spoke to her at noon,” Jyotsna acknowledged. West Bengal Migrant Welfare Board chairperson Samirul Islam, who led the honest fight for Sunali’s repatriation, wrote on X that her return would possibly presumably perhaps be remembered as “a historical 2nd that exposes the torture and atrocities inflicted on unfortunate Bengalis”.(With inputs from Subhro Maitra in Malda and S Boral in Suri)
