Centre agrees in SC to bring back some persons ‘pushed’ into Bangladesh, to verify citizenship

The Union government on Friday told the Supreme Court that it would bring back some persons who were “pushed” into Bangladesh to verify their citizenship, Live Law reported.

The bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul Pancholi was hearing the government’s petition challenging a Calcutta High Court order that set aside the Centre’s decision to deport six persons, including a pregnant woman from West Bengal and her family, to Bangladesh.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Union government, told the court that the Centre would bring back the persons “keeping in view the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case”.

However, he added that this should not be considered as a precedent to be followed in other similar cases, Live Law reported.

Following Mehta’s submission, the court said: “Their continuation in India will depend on the outcome of such enquiry.”

The solicitor general was quoted as stating that it would take about eight to ten days to bring the persons back to India.

The case

In June 2025, Sunali Khatun, her husband and their son, as well as another woman Sweety Bibi and her two sons had been taken into custody in Delhi and sent to Bangladesh. The six persons maintain that they hail from West Bengal’s Birbhum district.

In September, the Calcutta High Court set aside...

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