Overview

• The division bench dismissed the Centre’s plea for a stay and directed steps to bring back two Birbhum families within four weeks.
• The six people—including an eight-month pregnant woman, her husband and child, and another couple with a minor son—were detained in Delhi in June and deported days later on FRRO orders.
• The court termed the deportation illegal and criticized the conferral of “Bangladeshi” status, seeking an affidavit detailing where and how the removals occurred.
• Centre and Delhi Police argued that jurisdiction lay with the Delhi High Court and noted Bangladesh had not affirmed the deportees as Indian, but the bench declined those objections.
• Families’ counsel presented land records predating 1971 and other IDs to assert Indian nationality, while TMC leaders welcomed the ruling and a BJP spokesperson called the deportations a mistake.