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Birbhum’s Sunali returns home after 100 days in Bangladesh jail
The Statesman
|December 07, 2025
After securing bail from a Judicial Magistrate Court in Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh, Sunali Khatun, a nine-month pregnant resident of Birbhum, returned to India through the Mahadipur Immigration Check Post on Friday.
She had spent nearly 100 days in a correctional facility across the border after allegedly being pushed into Bangladesh allegedly without due legal process. Sunali, accompanied by her eight-year-old son, underwent a medical checkup at Malda Medical College and Hospital before leaving for her home in Birbhum on Saturday with her father, Bhadu Sheikh.
According to court records, Sunali and three others were arrested under the Control of Entry Act, 1952. During the bail hearing, her lawyer informed the court that Sunali, then nine months pregnant, was among a group of Indian citizens allegedly forcibly pushed across the border from Birbhum before seeking shelter at the home of a local resident in Chapainawabganj.
This story is from the December 07, 2025 edition of The Statesman.
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