West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday said that his government will be cautious in identifying alleged undocumented immigrants to ensure that cases such as the one involving Sunali Khatun are not repeated, The Telegraph reported.
Last year, Khautun and her eight-year-old son were forced into Bangladesh by Indian authorities on claims that they were undocumented immigrants. The Birbhum resident was pregnant at the time.
She was brought back to India on December 5, 2025, after the Supreme Court, taking note of her advanced pregnancy, asked the Union government whether the mother and the son could be returned to India.
The Union government had said it would bring Khatun back on humanitarian grounds, but “without prejudice” to New Delhi’s “contentions on merits and our right to put them under surveillance”.
Adhikari on Saturday asserted that undocumented immigrants would not be allowed to stay in West Bengal, and would be sent back, The Telegraph reported. However, he said that unlike the “previous regime”, the state government would not be very cautious in sending undocumented immigrants to Bangladesh.
“No Indian citizen would face difficulties,” The Telegraph quoted Adhikari as saying.
Khatun was forced into Bangladesh by the Border Security Force, which reports to the Union home ministry.
On June 7, Adhikari had said that 4,800 alleged undocumented immigrants from Bangladesh who are not eligible for citizenship under...
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