The Calcutta High Court on Friday set aside the Centre’s deportation order against two migrant worker families from West Bengal’s Birbhum district who had been pushed into Bangladesh earlier this year, PTI reported.

A division bench of Justices Tapabrata Chakraborty and Ritabrata Kumar Mitra said that “acting in hot haste to deport them” was a clear violation of the law that needed to be set aside, The Indian Express reported.

The court directed that the six persons, including eight-month pregnant Sunali Khatun, be brought back to West Bengal within four weeks.

It also rejected the Centre’s request for a stay.

Since May, thousands of Bengali-speaking migrant workers have been rounded up in states ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party and asked to prove that they were Indian cit

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