Overview

• Chapainawabganj Sadar Court’s senior judicial magistrate found the two Birbhum families to be Indian citizens after noting their Aadhaar details and West Bengal addresses.
• The court instructed that its order be sent to the Indian High Commission in Dhaka to initiate the process of sending the six back to India.
• Days earlier, on September 26, the Calcutta High Court set aside the Centre’s deportation move and ordered the government to repatriate the group within four weeks.
• The six were detained in Delhi’s Rohini on June 24 and pushed across the border on June 26 on FRRO orders, then arrested in Bangladesh under the Control of Entry Act, 1952.
• The case highlights contested use of identity documents and alleged procedural lapses during recent drives targeting Bengali-speaking migrant workers in multiple Indian states.