Sunali returns to Birbhum from Bangladesh jail; Sweety’s family left waiting, hopeful

KOLKATA: Tears of alleviation flowed successful 1 mud-walled location successful Bengal’s Birbhum district. A kilometre away, different location filled with the aforesaid prayers stayed silent.On Saturday, Sunali Khatun returned to Paikar colony with her lad Shabir, 8, aft months of detention successful Bangladesh.

Her return, ordered connected humanitarian grounds due to the fact that of her precocious pregnancy, has lone sharpened the anguish of different Birbhum household inactive waiting for their daughter, Sweety Bibi, and her 2 sons to travel back.Sweety’s 3rd kid Imran, who lives with his grandparents, keeps asking wherefore his aunt has returned but not his mother. “How bash you explicate this to a 10-year-old?” said Sweety’s parent Rozina Bibi, 50. “They took my mother,” Imran said. “When volition they instrumentality her to me?”The family’s conflict runs deeper. Sweety has been the sole earner since her hubby Azizul Dewan went missing successful TN 4 years ago. Working arsenic a location assistance successful Delhi, she supported her 3 sons and her ailing parents. “We outcry each clip we meet,” Rozina said of Sunali’s parents Bhodu and Jyotsna. “Today their girl is back. We are blessed for them. But wherefore not mine?”Why wasn’t Sweety, deported with Sunali, brought back: KinSunali, her hubby Danish Sheikh, their son, and her relative Sweety, 32, on with Sweety’s 2 sons — Kurban, 16, and Imam, 6 — were picked up successful June during a crackdown connected “illegal immigrants” successful New Delhi.

They were flown to Guwahati and pushed crossed the borderline nether an bid of Delhi’s Foreigners Regional Registration Office. Bangladesh authorities arrested them connected Aug 21. A Chapai Nawabganj tribunal aboriginal granted them bail.A Calcutta precocious tribunal part seat had quashed the deportation order, citing procedural lapses, and directed that each six beryllium brought home. That judgement was challenged earlier the Supreme Court, wherever a two-judge seat asked the Centre connected Dec 3 to bring backmost Sunali and her lad and support her nether infirmary care.

“If the HC ordered each six to beryllium brought back, wherefore was my girl stopped?” asked Rozina. “They told america she reached the border, past said it would instrumentality 2 oregon 3 much days. We person been proceeding this since Sept 26.”Bengal migrant workers’ payment committee chairperson Samirul Islam said Supreme Court volition perceive Sweety’s lawsuit again connected Dec 12. “We are hopeful that Sweety and her 2 insignificant children, and Sunali’s husband, volition beryllium allowed to instrumentality too,” helium said. Until then, 1 Birbhum household rocks a large girl backmost into safety. Another counts the footsteps that inactive haven’t crossed the border.