Bengal

Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Friday accused the BJP-led Centre of failing to comply with the Calcutta High Court’s order to return six individuals, including the pregnant Sonali Khatun, who were wrongfully deported to Bangladesh.

The High Court had directed on September 26 that the individuals be brought back to India within four weeks, a deadline that TMC said expired on Friday without action.

A division bench of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Reetobroto Kumar Mitra had set aside the Central government’s order to deport them and set a deadline of four weeks to bring them back.

In its order, the High Court division bench had asked the central government to make necessary correspondence with the High Commission in Dhaka to facilitate the repatriation proces

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