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Calcutta High Court stated that the place from which the detainees have been pushed again had not been disclosed within the affidavits filed by the Centre. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu
A Division Bench of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Reetobrata Mitra whereas listening to a petition filed by Bhodu Sheikh, father of Sunali Bibi who was pushed again into Bangladesh after being detained in Delhi, stated that the place from which the detainees have been pushed again had not been disclosed within the affidavits filed by the Centre. The Bench famous that in absence of such particulars, the problem of territorial jurisdiction can’t be prioritized and determined at this stage.
The counsels showing for the Union authorities and safety businesses have challenged the petition filed by father of Sunali Bibi earlier than the Calcutta High Court on grounds of its maintainability. The High Court in its order dated September 11 additionally referred to an affidavit filed by the Centre which acknowledged that FRRO ((Foreigners Regional Registration Office) Delhi being a civil authority has been repatriating unlawful migrants of Bangladesh as per instruction dated 2nd May, 2025 issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
The counsel for petitioner Bhodu Sekh, the daddy of Sunali Khatun stated that because the month of June, 2025, regardless of repeated efforts he couldn’t contact with the detainees ( her daughter and different members of the family) and he lodged a lacking diary on sixth July, 2025 earlier than the officer-in- cost beneath Paikar Police Station within the State’s Birbhum district.
Sunali Bibi, her husband Danish, and their eight-year-old son have been pushed into Bangladesh on June 26 after being detained by the Delhi Police. Sunali is eight months pregnant. Last month, they have been detained by Bangladesh police on costs of illegally getting into the nation and put in jail.
West Bengal Migrant Welfare Board beneath its chairperson Samirul Islam has come to the succour of the household and helped them method the Courts. Over the previous few months there have been experiences of migrants being detained in Odisha, Haryana and Delhi. Some migrants from the State have been pushed into Bangladesh.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has introduced a scheme titled Shramashree to present a month-to-month stipend of ₹5,000 to migrant employees who’re compelled to return from different states. Ms. Banerjee has stated that about 26,000 migrant employees have returned to West Bengal after harassment of Bengali talking migrants.
On Friday (September 12, 2025), the Trinamool Congress claimed {that a} Bengali migrant employee from Nadia’s Tehatta was brutally hacked to demise in Visakhapatnam.
“This is the grotesque extension of a local weather of LINGUISTIC TERROR cultivated by @BJP4India and its allies. When a political mission legitimises exclusion, marginalisation turns into permission to kill,” the Trinamool Congress posted on social media.
Published – September 13, 2025 07:22 am IST
