The Calcutta High Court has directed the return of West Bengal residents who were deported to Bangladesh by the Delhi Police upon suspicion of being Bangladeshi nationals.

Justices Tapabrata Chakraborty and Reetobroto Kumar Mitra directed the return of the citizens within four weeks and held:

"The life style of the people shapes the profile of the law and not vice versa. Law cannot be disjuncted from context. The fundamental rights cannot be read as dull lifeless words. If an uncontrolled or unguided power is conferred without any reasonable and proper standards or limits being laid down in the enactment for guidance and control of exercise of such power, the act cannot by the furthest of imagination be construed to be a 'procedure established by law'. The executive cannot be vested with

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