Bureau Prayagraj –The Central government on Friday told the Supreme Court that it has decided to bring back some people deported to Bangladesh to India and then their Indian citizenship claims will be verified. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the central government, told a bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant that keeping in mind the specific facts and circumstances of the case and not considering it as an example to be emulated in other cases., The government has decided to bring them back.
Mehta told a bench comprising Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi that the government will bring them back and then examine their condition. based on results, We will take steps accordingly. The top law officer said it may take 8-10 days to bring these persons back to India. The bench has fixed the next hearing date of the case in July.
The Supreme Court was hearing the petition of the Central Government in which the Calcutta High Court’s order on September 26, That order of 2025 was challenged, In which the High Court had canceled the decision of the Central Government to deport Sunali Khatoon and others to Bangladesh and declared it ‘illegal’.
On December 3 last year, the top court had allowed Khatoon and her eight-year-old child to enter India on ‘humanitarian grounds’, months after they were deported to Bangladesh. The court had directed the West Bengal government to take care of the child and directed the Chief Medical Officer of Birbhum district to provide all possible medical assistance to the pregnant Khatoon, including free delivery facilities.
On April 24, the court gave the last opportunity to the central government and asked its lawyer to take instructions in this matter and inform the court. Senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Sanjay Hegde, appearing for Khatoon’s father Bhodu Shaikh, said that this attitude of the central government is ‘somewhat unfair’., Who has not told his views to the court in this matter.
The family, who had been working as daily wage laborers for more than two decades in Sector 26 of the area, were detained by the police on June 18 last year on suspicion of being Bangladeshis and later pushed across the border on June 27. That the six deported citizens be brought back to India within a month and rejected the government’s appeal for a temporary stay on the order.
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