Four persons from West Bengal’s Birbhum district who were forced into Bangladesh in June 2025 were brought back to India on Wednesday, a resident of their village confirmed to Scroll.
Sunali Khatun, her husband and their son, as well as another woman, Sweety Bibi and her two sons, had been taken into custody in Delhi and sent to Bangladesh. The six persons maintain that they hail from Birbhum district.
In December, Khatun, who was pregnant at the time, and her son Sabir were brought back to India on humanitarian grounds.
On Wednesday, Khatun’s husband, Danish Sheikh, Sweety Bibi and her two sons entered West Bengal, their neighbour Soyef Ali, a resident of Paikar village in Birbhum, told Scroll.
They entered the state through the Mahadipur border crossing in Malda district.
On May 22, the Union government told the Supreme Court that it would bring back the persons who had been forced into the neighbouring country to verify their citizenship.
The Centre’s statement came while the Supreme Court was hearing its challenge to a Calcutta High Court order that had set aside the deportation order against all six of them.
It had directed that they be brought back to West Bengal within four weeks. The High Court had passed the order on a petition filed by Khatun’s father, Bhodu Sekh.
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