KOLKATA: Birbhum resident Sunali Khatun, nine months and 12 days pregnant, returned to India along with her son, Shabir, 8, on Friday evening, six months after the family’s ordeal began 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 through the Mahadipur border checkpoint in Malda around 7pm and were received by zilla parishad sabhadhipati Lipika Ghosh and other Trinamool functionaries. Officials took them to Malda Medical College and Hospital, where doctors ran tests to decide when she can travel four-and-a-half hours by road to reach her home in Birbhum.Sunali was unwell & crying… I’m worried, says her mother Bangladeshi couple Farooq and Mumtaj Hossain, who hosted Sunali Khatun and her family after they received bail a few days ago, said doctors in Chapai Nawabganj had planned to induce labour.
They abandoned the plan when Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) said she needed to be handed over to BSF immediately. Sunali’s husband Danish Sk remains in Bangladesh, awaiting completion of repatriation formalities along with fellow Birbhum resident Sweety Biwi & her two sons. All six were deported on June 26 despite having Aadhaar and other identity documents, their lawyers said. Sunali, Danish and Sweety had been earning a living as ragpickers in Delhi when they were rounded up on June 17 on suspicion of being Bangladeshis living illegally in Ind
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