Deported Bengal resident Sunali Khatun returns home, hospitalised

Six-year old Afreen wouldn't stop giggling even as her mother, Sunali Khatun, was being wheeled inside the Rampurhat Government Medical College and Hospital, amid relentless clicks of media shutterbugs on Saturday afternoon, when the winter chill of Bengal countryside had slowly begun taking effect.

- Press Trust of India

Arrested by Delhi Police in June this year on suspicion of being a Bangladeshi national and subsequently pushed to the neighbouring nation, Sunali, a migrant resident of Murarai in Birbhum who is in an advanced stage of pregnancy, was repatriated through the Malda border on Friday, alongside her minor son Sabir, following a Supreme Court directive.

She was admitted to the Rampurhat hospital in Birbhum on Saturday, where she will remain under observation of doctors till the expected childbirth happens later this month or beginning of the next.