Overview
- Sunali Khatun, 26, and her eight-year-old son crossed into India at the Mahadipur–Malda border on Friday evening and were taken to Malda Medical College and Hospital for pregnancy care.
- The Union government told the Supreme Court it would bring them back "purely on humanitarian grounds," and the bench directed West Bengal to provide free medical treatment and care for the child.
- Her husband Danish Sheikh and three others from the two Birbhum families remain in Bangladesh after a Chapai Nawabganj court granted bail on December 1, with the matter listed again in the Supreme Court on December 12.
- On September 26, the Calcutta High Court quashed the deportation orders and directed repatriation, finding the process hasty and pointing to documents such as electoral rolls, land records, Aadhaar and PAN.
- The families were detained in Delhi in June and pushed into Bangladesh within days under FRRO directions, then jailed there as alleged infiltrators, intensifying scrutiny of enforcement practices and accountability.