NEW DELHI: More than five months after her deportation to Bangladesh, the Union govt on Wednesday told Supreme Court that it would “purely on humanitarian grounds” bring back Sunali Khatun, who is pregnant, and her eight-year-old son, even as it stuck to its stand that she is an illegal immigrant from Bangladesh. “Law has to bend before humanity,” said a bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi as it asked solicitor general Tushar Mehta to seek instructions from govt about the return of the other four who were detained in Delhi by police before being deported to Bangladesh in June. On Oct 3, a Bangladeshi court had declared Sunali and her family to be Indian citizens. Mehta said the Union govt had taken a humanitarian view only because of the woman’s advanced pregnancy and t

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