KOLKATA: In one other life, Sunali Khatun may have been a model of Manto’s Toba Tek Singh, a person with no nation to name his personal. Pushed into Bangladesh by police in India who labelled her an unlawful immigrant, police in Bangladesh have now carried out the identical factor to her – referred to as her an unlawful immigrant and jailed her. She is eight months pregnant.Birbhum resident Sunali, anticipating a baby any time now, was escorted right into a Bangladesh jail on Friday not understanding to which nation her unborn child would belong.The 26-year-old’s Aadhaar and voter identification card hadn’t saved her from being branded an “unlawful immigrant” in Delhi, the place she was working till just lately. On Thursday, cops in Chapai Nawabganj arrested her primarily based on these very identification paperwork.Sunali, her ragpicker husband Danish Sheikh and the couple’s toddler son Sabir are actually amongst six “nowhere individuals” with roots in West Bengal however disowned by their nation and incarcerated in Bangladesh. The others are Sweety Biwi and her sons Qurban Sheikh (16) and Imam Dewan (6).The befuddled bunch had been residing and dealing in Delhi’s Rohini – incomes simply sufficient to maintain afloat – once they had been arrested throughout an “identification verification drive” and despatched to Bangladesh by Assam on June 26.“The group of six was arrested after they had been discovered loitering in Chapai Nawabganj. They instructed us they had been Indians who entered Bangladesh by the Kurigram border (in Assam), roamed the streets of Dhaka for some days, after which reached right here. They did not have a lawyer throughout Friday’s courtroom listening to,” Chapai Nawabganj police superintendent Md Rezaul Karim instructed TOI on Friday.Except somebody takes up cudgels for them, Sunali, her household and the remainder of the group will stay in jail until the subsequent listening to scheduled in September. Karim stated all six had been charged beneath the Management of Entry Act, 1952.Sunali’s father Bhodu Sk, who has filed a habeas corpus in Calcutta excessive courtroom, stated it was stunning to even suppose that his closely pregnant daughter may give start in jail. “We’re poor. We have now moved the excessive courtroom, what else might be carried out?” he stated.Arif Sk, a neighbour of the household in Bengal’s Birbhum, stated everybody has pooled in to try to prepare a lawyer in Bangladesh to bail out the group from their village.Bhodu and co-petitioner Amir Khan, who’s Sweety Khatun’s cousin, stated of their petition that what occurred was a “betrayal of legislation”. The excessive courtroom is scheduled to listen to the case on Sept 10.A PIL has been filed in Supreme Court docket on the alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking migrants in India, together with Sunali’s “unlawful deportation”. The PIL has been listed for listening to on Aug 29.Bengal migrant welfare board chairperson and Rajya Sabha MP Samirul Islam stated, “We’re making each effort to convey again Sunali and the others. We’re additionally offering the household authorized assist.”In the meantime, on Aug 13, 22-year-old Malda migrant labourer Amir Sheikh, who was pushed into Bangladesh on June 25, returned to India, his reappearance as mysterious as his disappearance from the nation of his start. Amir had been caught in Bangladesh since June 25, prompting his father – Jiyem Sheikh – to file a habeas corpus within the HC. He stated Rajasthan Police had arrested him for being a “Bangladeshi residing in India illegally”.BSF instructed the courtroom a few hours after Amir’s return by the Basirhat border that he had crossed over to Bangladesh “inadvertently”.