Pregnant Sunali Khatun who was pushed back into Bangladesh gives birth to son after return to India

The ordeal had begun in the summers when the pregnant domestic worker, her husband and minor son were picked up from Delhi’s Rohini and pushed across the border into Bangladesh on the suspicion that they were undocumented immigrants.

A harrowing legal fight consumed the next six months as the 26-year-old woman approached the Supreme Court, becoming the face of the struggle that was to eventually bring her back to her homeland. Her husband, Danish Sheikh, is still across the border, in a Bangaldesh jail.

On Monday, a brief interlude of joy cut through the chaos of her recent months as Khatun gave birth to her second son at a hospital in West Bengal’s Birbhum district.