A large crowd welcomed Sunali Khatun with flowers as she returned to her ancestral house in Birbhum’s Paikar in West Bengal on Saturday (December 6, 2025), nearly five months after she was ‘forced’ into Bangladesh.

“There is nothing like one’s own country,” said nine-month-pregnant Sunali as she was taken to Rampurhat Medical College and Hospital following a brief stay at home. Sunali had entered India from Malda border on Friday evening and reached Paikar on Saturday.

“The police did not torture us there (in Bangladesh),” Ms. Khatun told journalists, adding that the Delhi police had “tortured her” and even the Border Security Force (BSF) personnel she pleaded with did not listen to her.

Ms. Khatun and her child were among a group of six migrants from two families detained by the Delhi

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