India, Oct. 29 -- The Calcutta high court on Wednesday admitted separate contempt petitions against the Union home secretary filed by the fathers of the two Bengal homemakers who are lodged in a Bangladesh jail with their husbands and minor children despite the high court and a Bangladesh court directing the Indian government to bring them back, lawyers aware of the development said.

Both petitions will be heard on November 6 according to copies of the case status documents seen by HT.

The petitions will be heard by the division bench of justices Tapabrata Chakraborty and Ritabrata Kumar Mitra that directed the Centre on September 26 to bring back Sunali Khatun, who is in her eighth month of pregnancy, her husband Danish Sheikh, their m...