Sunali Khatun, a pregnant woman who had been deported to Bangladesh earlier this year, returned to India on Friday through the Mahadipur border in West Bengal’s Malda district. She was accompanied by her eight-year-old son, two days after the Supreme Court of India intervened and urged the central government to allow her reentry.

Khatun’s case gained national attention after the pregnant woman, her husband Danish Sekh, their son Sabir, and three others were deported to Bangladesh in June on allegations of being infiltrators. All six are reportedly members of the same family and hail from Birbhum district in West Bengal. They were arrested by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) under the country’s Control of Entry Act and jailed for illegally entering without travel documents. Poll-bound West

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