Calcutta HC Dismisses Deportation Order Against Six, Orders To Bring Them Back Within 4 Weeks

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Calcutta HC Dismisses Deportation Order Against Six, Orders To Bring Them Back Within 4 Weeks

Six members of two families were detained from Delhi and pushed across border. Both families moved habeas corpus petitions in high court seeking their return.

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday dismissed the Centre's order to push back six members of two families, including eight-month pregnant Sonali Bibi, from West Bengal's Birbhum district into Bangladesh.

A division bench of Justice Tapobrata Chakraborty and Justice Ritabrata Kumar Mitra has ordered the Union Home Ministry that they should be brought back to India within a month. The Centre will move the Supreme Court against the Calcutta High Court's order.

On June 26, Delhi Police arrested the two f