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She threw their 19-month-old baby in the Hudson last month, just to get back at her husband — but now he wants her back.

Devi Silvia — a 33-year-old Indian national and mother of two — asked a Manhattan judge yesterday to set her free, into her husband’s care, while she awaits a plea or trial on attempted-murder charges.

Her husband sat in the courtroom audience, teary-eyed throughout the brief hearing. He left without commenting.

Judge Lewis Stone seemed amenable to setting Silvia free, telling the parties he thought Rikers Island seemed “the least appropriate situation there is,” so long as she can get outpatient treatment for her newly diagnosed bipolar disorder.

Silvia remains for now in a locked psychiatric ward in Elmhurst Hospital.

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