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The Calcutta High Court connected Friday (September 26, 2025) directed repatriation of six radical from 2 families hailing from West Bengal’s Birbhum, who were pushed into Bangladesh.
A Division Bench comprising Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Reetobrata Mitra gave this absorption portion deciding 2 writ petitions filed by Bhodu Sheikh and Amir Khan.
Bhodu Sheikh sought repatriation of his girl Sunali Khatun Sheikh, his son-in-law Danish Sheikh and insignificant grandson, portion Amir Khan sought repatriation of his sister Sweety Bibi and her sons Kurban Sheikh and Imam Dewan.
In some cases, the tribunal noted procedural violations of the memo by the Ministry of Home Affairs dated May 2, 2025.
The Division Bench did not conclusively determine citizenship but emphasised that owed process was ignored.
In some the petitions, the High Court bid noted that the process and process adopted successful the deportation rise a suspicion that the “concerned authorities portion acting successful blistery haste “have intelligibly violated provisions of the MHA memo dated May 2, 2025.
‘Procedure not followed’
While the tribunal noted that Aadhaar card, PAN paper and Voter ID paper were nary impervious of citizenship, it pointed retired that the memo of 02.05.2025 “applies lone to Bangladeshi and Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar; thus, if we instrumentality the worst-case script of the detainees, that they were not Indian citizens, the steps and procedures laid down successful the memo ought to person been followed by the acrophobic authorities”.
“Not pursuing specified process and acting successful blistery haste to deport them is simply a wide usurpation which renders the deportation bid atrocious successful instrumentality and liable to beryllium acceptable aside,” the Bench noted.
Ms. Sunali Khatun and Ms. Sweety Bibi, some residents of Birbhum successful West Bengal, were moving successful Delhi and were detained with their families and pushed into Bangladesh successful June this year. According to the reports aft deportation, the families were lodged successful prisons of Bangladesh.
Reacting to the order, Bhodu Sheikh thanked the High Court and said that without the enactment of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and West Bengal Migrant Welfare Board Chairperson Samirul Islam, helium could not person managed the instrumentality of his daughter.
The begetter besides criticised the Delhi Police and said that without investigating the whereabouts of his daughter, who is simply a nonmigratory of Birbhum, they pushed her into Bangladesh. Some reports had pointed retired that aft deportation, the migrant workers were lodged successful prisons of Bangladesh.
Mr. Islam, who is besides a Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP, described the bid arsenic a triumph of the truth. “The Bench recovered their assertion mendacious and declared the FRRO Delhi’s detention/deportation bid illegal, ordering that the household beryllium brought backmost to India wrong 4 weeks... This is not conscionable my victory; it is Bengal’s triumph — a rebuke to the BJP’s anti-Bengali, anti-poor policy,” helium said.
Not the archetypal time
This is not the archetypal clip that migrant workers from West Bengal pushed into Bangladesh person been repatriated. Earlier, connected August 14, Amir Sheikh, a 19-year-old migrant idiosyncratic from Kaliachak successful West Bengal’s Malda territory who was allegedly detained from Rajasthan successful May and “pushed back” into Bangladesh, was reunited with his family. The household of Amir Sheikh had besides approached the Calcutta High Court.
There are besides different past instances erstwhile respective migrant workers of the State who were pushed into Bangladesh were repatriated pursuing the involution of section authorities.
Trinamool Congress wide caput Abhishek Banerjee besides raised the contented of deportation of Ms. Sunali Bibi. Mr. Banerjee, portion referring to the High Court order, said that Home Minister Amit Shah should tender apology.
Over the past fewer months hundreds of Bengali-speaking migrant workers person faced alleged detention and harassment successful antithetic States and were asked to nutrient documents to beryllium they are not Bangladeshi nationals. Some migrant workers from West Bengal person claimed that they were “pushed into” the neighbouring country.
