42-year-old Bangladeshi woman gives birth to baby boy in Assam prison

SILCHAR: A 42-year-old Bangladeshi woman lodged in a detention centre inside Assam's Karimganj district jail since the last four years on charges of illegally entering India, has given birth to a baby boy in hospital, officials said on Wednesday.
Both the mother and child are doing fine. The newborn is Chandni's fourth child.
Officials said Chandni, along with her husband, had entered India through the Tripura border without any valid documents. Later, the couple went to Mumbai in search of work.
Child born to Bangladeshi mother can't claim citizenship: Lawyer
But as Chandni conceived there, her husband sent her with a relative to Bangladesh by adopting illegal means a few months ago. But Chandni was arrested at the Badarpur railway station and was produced in court which sent her to the detention centre. Chandni and her relative have been lodged at the Karimganj detention centre for the last few months.
Samsul Alom, joint director of health (Karimganj), said the mother and child were sent back to the detention centre on Tuesday. The baby was born on Monday. Some locals raised questions as to whether the newly born child can claim Indian citizenship by birth. According to the foreigners division of the Union ministry of home affairs, "a person born in India on or after 3rd December, 2004 is considered a citizen of India by birth if both the parents are citizens of India or one of the parents is a citizen of India and the other is not an illegal migrant at the time of his birth."
Senior lawyer Imad Uddin Bulbul said the child in question, who was born to a Bangladeshi mother in Karimganj, can't claim India citizenship.