India, Dec. 6 -- After a long legal battle, 26-year-old Sunali Khatun was brought back to India from Bangladesh on Friday, along with her eight-year-old son. She had been deported to Bangladesh earlier this year. Her return came two days after the Supreme Court nudged the government to bring her back on "humanitarian grounds".

Now in her advanced stage of pregnancy, Khatun was brought back through the Mahadipur border in West Bengal's Malda district and was rushed to Malda Medical College and Hospital for examination, according to the officers present at the border.

Sunali Khatun is a 26-year-old pregnant woman who was deported to Bangladesh in June this year along with her minor son Sabir Sheikh and husband Danish Sheikh on suspicion o...