At the instruction of South Dinajpur District Magistrate Tapas Chowdhury, Balurghat correctional home authorities handed over five-year-old Farhad to Ruma Beghum who had moved the Calcutta High Court to get back her son.
District administration sources said a group of 16 Bangladeshis had tried to enter India illegally through Hili border but all of them were arrested on February 26 and sentenced to imprisonment for two years.
Three months later, Ruma Beghum came to India legally and moved the district court to get back her son.
After her defeat there, she moved the Calcutta High Court and Justice Sanjeeb Bandyopadhyay ordered the South Dinajpur DM last week to make arrangements for returning Farhad to his mother, the sources said.
After the completion of necessary paper work yesterday, the correctional home authorities returned Farhad to his mother today.