Overview
- The three adults and two children crossed back into India through the Mahadipur integrated check post on Wednesday and were handed to the Border Security Force and West Bengal police after medical and border formalities.
- The returnees are Sweety Bibi, her two minor sons, and Danish Sheikh while Sunali Khatun and her son were brought home in December 2025.
- Families say the group was detained in Delhi in June 2025, taken via Assam and pushed across the international border into Bangladesh where Bangladeshi authorities later arrested and jailed them.
- The Calcutta High Court ordered repatriation, a Chapainawabganj magistrate in Bangladesh used Aadhaar and West Bengal addresses to say they were Indian citizens, and the Supreme Court directed the Centre to bring them back for status verification.
- The case left children out of school and adults without work for a year and has raised questions about how officials identify suspected migrants and whether the Union home ministry’s deportation procedures were followed.