The Supreme Court on Wednesday permitted a pregnant woman and her eight-year-old child to re-enter India on humanitarian grounds, months after they were allegedly picked up from Delhi and pushed across the border into Bangladesh.

A bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant, sitting with Justice Joymalya Bagchi, said the West Bengal government must immediately take responsibility for the minor child and ensure full medical support to the woman, Sunali Khatun. The court directed the Chief Medical Officer of Birbhum district to supervise her care.

The bench recorded the statement of Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Union government, that the “competent authority” had decided to allow their entry purely on humanitarian considerations. He added that both mother and child would rem

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