Sunali Khatun and her children, who were brought back from Bangladesh on December 6.

If the police come home and say that you are Bangladeshi. Pack your bags, we are deporting you to Bangladesh. In your defense, you show Aadhaar, ration card, but the police don't listen and blindfold you and send you directly to the Bangladesh border. Such an order would ruin anyone's life in an instant.

The life of 26-year-old Sunali Khatun was turned into hell by such an order. Along with the pregnant Khatun, her 8-year-old son also suffered this hell. Thankfully, on December 3, the Supreme Court ordered Sunali to be brought back to India on humanitarian grounds. Sunali is now in West Bengal. She is undergoing treatment for malnutrition.

Samirul Islam, president of the West Bengal Migrant Board, and S

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