A photograph of Amir Sheikh (left) shared by his family members after a video (screenshot on right) of him visibly shaken went viral on social media. (Express photo)A day after 19-year-old Bengali migrant Amir Shiekh, who was detained by the Rajasthan Police in June and later pushed into Bangladesh, returned to India on Tuesday, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday told his family to “bring back the son first” before it will hear the matter.Amir’s father Jiyem Shiekh had moved the Calcutta High Court last week seeking judicial intervention to bring his son back.Amir Sheikh was reunited with his family on Wednesday evening after being handed over to them at Basirhat police station in the bordering district of North 24 Parganas. The Border Security Force (BSF) had previously handed him over to the Basirhat Police on Tuesday.While the state government and the Centre submitted their respective reports, the High Court upon hearing that Amir was brought back, observed, “Bring back your son first, we will hear the matter.”Amir’s counsel, on Wednesday, told the Division Bench of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Reetobrata Kumar Mitra that a copy of Amir Sheikh’s birth certificate was enclosed with the petition, maintaining that he is a citizen of India and was a resident of Kaliachak in Malda district. “The grandparents of Amir Shiekh has Indian passport, he has school certificates and all documents. They have not seen anything but they had just pushed him into Bangladesh. Prior to that he was tortured in Rajasthan. Now we are being told that the Border Security Force (BSF) have brought him back.”Deputy Solicitor General (DSG) Rajdeep Majumder, appearing for the MEA and the BSF told the court that Amir had attempted to cross over to Indian territory from Bangladesh on August 12. As he could not produce appropriate documents as regards his identity, he was apprehended and handed over to the officer-in-charge, police station-Basirhat, by the BSF. But no formal case has yet been registered against Amir, he added.He submitted that if the petitioner approaches the police authorities, Amir would be handed over to the petitioner subject to production of all necessary records and upon execution of undertaking, if any.Story continues below this adTMC MP Samirul Islam posted on X, “This evening, Amir Sheikh was handed over to his family from the Basirhat police station. Nearly a month after being unlawfully pushed back to Bangladesh by the BSF, Amir is happy to be back on Indian soil — and his family is equally happy to have him home.”While he questioned the authorities’ claims regarding Amir Sheikh’s deportation, he posted, “Amir Sheikh was deported to Bangladesh by the Rajasthan Police with the help of the BSF… we stood by his family.. helped Amir’s father filed a Habeas Corpus petition in the Calcutta High Court. Under this pressure, the BSF has brought Amir back to West Bengal. The BSF has already handed him over to the Basirhat Police. Today, the court has asked the police to hand over Amir to his father. Yet strangely, they are now claiming that Amir was never deported! Then what happened? How did he end up in Bangladesh?”“Don’t worry—they have another explanation. They claim Amir “inadvertently” went to Bangladesh on his own!…The same BJP leaders who scream that hordes of infiltrators are flooding India from Bangladesh now want us to believe that Amir willingly crossed… into that very country through illegal routes! Do they have no sense of shame? Or do they simply think the people of Bengal are fools? If it’s the latter, let me tell you, anti-Bengal forces — Bengal’s people will give you a fitting lesson. How much lower will you stoop?” he said.Stay updated with the latest - Click here to follow us on Instagram© The Indian Express Pvt LtdTags:Kolkata