Govt to bring back pregnant woman deported to B’desh

THE WOMAN, WHO IS IN ADVANCED AGE OF HER PREGNANCY WILL RECEIVE URGENT MEDICAL C. ARE, WHILE BEING KEPT UNDER SURVEILLANC

- Utkarsh Anand

The Union government on Wednesday agreed to bring back a pregnant woman deported to Bangladesh earlier this year along with her eight-year-old son, after a strong nudge from the Supreme Court, which said the matter demanded humanity over technicalities.

Recording the Centre's undertaking, the court directed that she be provided immediate medical assistance and permitted to reside near her family in West Bengal.

“These are cases where law has to bend to humanity. Some of these cases require a different outlook,” observed a bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi, as it took on record a statement from Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that Sunali Khatun and her son Sabir could be brought back to India “on humanitarian grounds” and kept under appropriate surveillance.