<p>New Delhi: The Centre has decided to bring back individuals deported to Bangladesh and verify their claims to Indian citizenship, the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/supreme-court">Supreme Court</a> was informed on Friday.</p><p>A bench of Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi heard the Centre’s appeal against a September 26, 2025, Calcutta High Court order. </p><p>The High Court had struck down the deportation of Sunali Khatun and others as “illegal”.</p><p>Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the court that, considering the specific facts of the case and without setting a precedent, the government would repatriate the deportees. </p> .Supreme Court refers UAPA bail delay to larger bench, avoids remarks on Umar, Sharjeel case.<p>“The government would bring them back and thereafter examine their status. Depending upon the outcome, we will take steps accordingly,” Mehta submitted.</p><p>He added that the process of bringing them back may take eight to ten days. </p><p>The court now posted the matter for further hearing in July 2026.</p> .<p>The Calcutta High Court had criticised the “hot haste” in which the individuals were arrested on June 21, 2025, and deported by June 26 without a proper hearing. </p><p>While the Centre claimed they failed to produce identity documents, the High Court noted that their grandfathers’ names figured in the West Bengal electoral rolls and directed that they be brought back and given an opportunity to present their case.</p> .<p>Sunali Khatun had already returned to India in December 2025 with her eight-year-old son following a Supreme Court direction on humanitarian grounds. She later gave birth to her second child in Birbhum district, West Bengal. </p><p>The others deported along with her are still in Bangladesh. </p>
<p>New Delhi: The Centre has decided to bring back individuals deported to Bangladesh and verify their claims to Indian citizenship, the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/supreme-court">Supreme Court</a> was informed on Friday.</p><p>A bench of Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi heard the Centre’s appeal against a September 26, 2025, Calcutta High Court order. </p><p>The High Court had struck down the deportation of Sunali Khatun and others as “illegal”.</p><p>Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the court that, considering the specific facts of the case and without setting a precedent, the government would repatriate the deportees. </p> .Supreme Court refers UAPA bail delay to larger bench, avoids remarks on Umar, Sharjeel case.<p>“The government would bring them back and thereafter examine their status. Depending upon the outcome, we will take steps accordingly,” Mehta submitted.</p><p>He added that the process of bringing them back may take eight to ten days. </p><p>The court now posted the matter for further hearing in July 2026.</p> .<p>The Calcutta High Court had criticised the “hot haste” in which the individuals were arrested on June 21, 2025, and deported by June 26 without a proper hearing. </p><p>While the Centre claimed they failed to produce identity documents, the High Court noted that their grandfathers’ names figured in the West Bengal electoral rolls and directed that they be brought back and given an opportunity to present their case.</p> .<p>Sunali Khatun had already returned to India in December 2025 with her eight-year-old son following a Supreme Court direction on humanitarian grounds. She later gave birth to her second child in Birbhum district, West Bengal. </p><p>The others deported along with her are still in Bangladesh. </p>
